Rust off Rails: An opinionated web stack for the AI era using Markdown conventions instead of code

·2026.10.22 01:34

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The framework consists of 60 Markdown files that guide coding agents to generate full-stack Rust applications with zero lines of pre-written framework code.

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Rust off Rails is a web framework that ships zero lines of code, relying on 60 Markdown files to instruct AI agents on building full-stack Rust apps.
The system enforces a single blessed stack and layout, where the agent writes all Rust, SQL, HTML, CSS, and TypeScript code based on human-provided intent and specs.
The stack uses Axum, Tokio, and SeaORM, supporting SQLite locally and Postgres in production with the same codebase, while treating the database as the only infrastructure for jobs, caching, and pub/sub.
Development is verified by running tests on both SQLite and Postgres, with a dev dashboard costing about 1 µs per request in release builds.

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