rustio-admin

Django Admin, but for Rust. A small, focused admin framework for Postgres-backed Rust apps. From a struct to a working CRUD admin in under 50 lines of project code.

🚀 v0.1.0 released on 2026-05-07 — first public release on crates.io. Three crates landed together: rustio-admin (the library), rustio-admin-macros (the RustioAdmin derive), and rustio-admin-cli (the rustio binary: startproject, startapp, migrate, user, group, perm, doctor). See the v0.1.0 changelog for the full feature inventory and the release tag for an immutable reference.

What you get

• #[derive(RustioAdmin)] on a plain struct → list / create / edit / delete pages.
• impl ModelAdmin for Django-style customisation (list_display, list_filter, search_fields, ordering, list_per_page).
• DB-backed sessions, Argon2 passwords, 5-tier role hierarchy, per-model RBAC.
• Hyper + sqlx + minijinja under the hood. Postgres only. No Tailwind, no PostCSS, no build step — one hand-written stylesheet.
• Single binary deploy. Project templates and CSS are baked in via include_str!; project overrides drop into templates/admin/.

Install

[dependencies]
rustio-admin = "0.1"
tokio  = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }

The CLI ships separately:

cargo install rustio-admin-cli      # provides the `rustio` binary

The 3-line idea

#[derive(RustioAdmin)]
pub struct Post { pub id: i64, pub title: String, /* … */ }

impl Model     for Post { /* TABLE, COLUMNS, from_row, insert_values */ }
impl ModelAdmin for Post {}                            // accept every default

// In your `main`:
let admin = Admin::new().model::<Post>();
let router = register_admin_routes(Router::new(), admin, db, templates);
Server::new(router, addr).run().await?;

A model that wants more control fills in the ModelAdmin body:

impl ModelAdmin for Post {
    fn list_display()  -> &'static [&'static str] { &["title", "published", "created_at"] }
    fn list_filter()   -> &'static [&'static str] { &["published"] }
    fn search_fields() -> &'static [&'static str] { &["title", "body"] }
    fn ordering()      -> &'static [&'static str] { &["-created_at"] }
}

For a complete project skeleton see examples/minimal/ and the docs/getting-started.md walkthrough.

Documentation

Workspace layout

cargo build --workspace
cargo test  --workspace

Status

v0.1.0 — released 2026-05-07. Browser-walked end-to-end against a local Postgres against both the examples/minimal skeleton and a fresh rustio startproject + rustio startapp flow; the classrooms project consumes the published crate. See the strategic reset plan for the design and the changelog for the feature inventory.

Future work tracks under separate milestones — v0.2 candidates include richer filter widgets (date range, multi-select), bulk actions on the list page, inline forms, and dashboard widgets. The schema-contract / drift-validator / AI-planner work that originally lived in this repo's predecessor stays explicitly out of scope and will, if it returns at all, ship as a separate rustio-pro-* family of crates.

Non-goals

rustio-admin is the admin layer and the auth/permissions/templates that surround it — nothing more. Not a full web framework. Not an ORM (the Model trait is a thin sqlx shim). Not a content management system. Not AI-augmented. Not multi-database (Postgres only, on purpose). Not schema-contract-driven (the schema-contract / drift-validator / AI-planner work belongs in a future Tier-2 crate, kept entirely out of this repo).

License

MIT — see LICENSE.