Rust Nix Flake Quickstart

Use as a Nix flake template

Full Rust dev shell + CI:

nix flake init -t github:data-cartel/rust.nix

CI only — drops just .github/workflows/ci.yaml into a project that already has a flake-based dev shell:

nix flake init -t github:data-cartel/rust.nix#ci

Prerequisites

Install Nix

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install

Install Direnv

nix -v flake install nixpkgs#direnv

Hook Direnv to your shell, e.g.

# For bash
echo 'eval "$(direnv hook bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

# For zsh
echo 'eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Enable direnv for the local copy of the repo

direnv allow

Get Rusty!