The **limiting-factor** crate offers facilities to implement a REST API.
## Goal
The goal of this library is to provide:
- glue code for Rocket and Diesel
- standard API replies
- boilerplate to parse environment to extract configuration and run a server
That allows an API or a back-end web server to focus on requests and data model,
and to maintain helper methods as a separate library.
## Dependencies
* Diesel, as PostgreSQL ORM, with r2d2 support to pool connections
* Rocket, as web framework
* Chrono, for date and time types
## Compile
### Windows
You need to give to `rustc` some hints about where `libpq.lib` is.
This is known to have worked:
```
setenv LIB "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\lib"
cargo clean
cargo run
```
## Credits
The glue code to use Rocket with Diesel is adapted from the Rocket guide.
See https://rocket.rs/guide/state/#databases. Guide author: Sergio Benitez.