# Install try-rs with Homebrew

Temporary workspace manager for fast experimentation in the terminal. Version 1.7.11 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-12.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:try-rs
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install try-rs
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:try-rs
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.7.11
- **Source summary:** Temporary workspace manager for fast experimentation in the terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://try-rs.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tassiovirginio/try-rs>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-12T01:07:09Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- try-rs (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.7.11
## Project history and usage

try-rs is a Rust command-line and TUI workspace manager for temporary programming experiments. Its official README describes it as a tool for keeping ad hoc projects out of Desktop, /tmp, and other cluttered folders by organizing experiments into managed directories.

### Project history

The project explicitly positions itself as a Rust port and re-imagining of Tobi Lutke's try tool. It preserves the original idea that small experiments deserve a home, while adding a native Rust binary, a Ratatui-based interface, shell integration, previews, themes, tabbed workspaces, and git-aware creation flows.

### Adoption history

Official project materials show adoption through package-manager and distribution channels used by command-line users: Cargo, Homebrew, Nix flakes, Arch AUR, an Ubuntu/Debian APT repository, GitHub releases, and direct source builds. GitHub lists dozens of releases and hundreds of stars, suggesting a small but visible audience among terminal-centric developers.

### How it is used

Users run try-rs to open the TUI, create or jump to a named experiment, clone a repository into a dated folder, create a git worktree from the current repository, set up shell integration, or generate shell completions. The tool is especially aimed at people who repeatedly create throwaway prototypes and later need fuzzy search, recency ordering, preview, and cleanup.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, try-rs is notable as a modern Rust rewrite of a tiny Ruby workflow tool, with broad packaging surfaces and shell integration rather than a single script. It belongs to the niche of personal workspace managers that make throwaway coding sessions reproducible enough to find again.

### Timeline

- 2026: GitHub shows v1.7.11 as the latest release on June 11, 2026.
- 2026: Official docs list Cargo, Homebrew, Nix, AUR, APT, GitHub release, and source-build installation paths.

### Related projects

- try-rs is directly related to tobi/try, which the README names as its inspiration and predecessor.
- It is also adjacent to shell jumpers, fuzzy finders, and project-directory managers, but its scope is narrower: temporary experiment workspaces.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/tassiovirginio/try-rs#readme>
- <https://github.com/tassiovirginio/try-rs/releases>
- <https://try-rs.org/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## 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/try-rs.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/try-rs.yml)


## Sources

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