Cargo already comes with many commands, but just as rust itself, it’s designed to provide a stable core to be extended by faster evolving additional commands, published as separate crates. All commands presented here can easily be installed via $ cargo install $CRATE into your $CARGO_HOME/bin directory. Since Cargo 1.41 cargo install can also update installed crates. Must have subcommands This is a list of crates I don’t want to miss in my daily life anymore, with exemplary use cases.

Sometimes the diesel abstraction is not enough if you want to execute more complex queries. This is totally possible, but the documentation is a bit brief on that topic, and the “SqlQuery bind” example shows MySQL syntax (which threw me off, since my postgres-query-writing-know-how is a bit rusty ATM). I wanted to execute the following query: insert into store_traffic_uploads (store_id, batch_id) select id as store_id, $1 from stores where id not in (select store_id from store_traffic_uploads) limit $2 ; The corresponding Rust Code then looks like this: