# Install gerust with Homebrew

Project generator for Rust backend projects. Version 0.0.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gerust
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gerust
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gerust
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.0.6
- **Source summary:** Project generator for Rust backend projects
- **Homepage:** <https://gerust.rs/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mainmatter/gerust>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:03:27-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gerust (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.0.6
## Project history and usage

Gerust is a Mainmatter project generator for Rust backend services. It codifies an axum, SQLx, PostgreSQL, and Cargo-workspace reference layout while leaving the generated application code under the developer's control.

### Project history

Mainmatter introduced Gerust as tooling around a specific Rust backend architecture rather than as a runtime framework. Its documentation describes the name as a play on the German word Geruest and Rust, and presents the tool as a way to remove repeated setup work from service projects.

### Adoption history

Gerust's adoption evidence is mostly limited to its official repository, documentation, crate-style installation path, and Homebrew formula. It fits the Rust web-service ecosystem around axum, SQLx, PostgreSQL, tracing, Docker-backed development databases, and Cargo workspaces.

### How it is used

Practitioners use the `gerust` command to create either minimal API-server projects or database-backed service projects. The generated workspace separates web, configuration, database, macro, and CLI responsibilities and includes conventions for migrations, test database isolation, tracing, and error handling.

### Why package nerds care

For package users, Gerust is notable because it is a generator with no runtime dependency in the generated project. Installing it via Cargo or Homebrew gives a reproducible starting point for a Rust backend without adding a framework dependency that remains in the deployed service.

### Timeline

- 2023: The public GitHub repository for Gerust was created.
- 2025: Early public releases were tagged in the repository.

### Related projects

- Gerust-generated projects are built around axum, SQLx, PostgreSQL, tracing, and Cargo workspaces.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/mainmatter/gerust>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/mainmatter/gerust/releases?per_page=10>
- <https://gerust.rs/docs>
- <https://gerust.rs/docs/architecture>
- <https://github.com/mainmatter/gerust>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gerust.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gerust.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph