Sharing Rust
As most of us know, The rust programming language is loved by its users. As a community, we have found that Rust developers have a tendency to share their experiences with non-rust developers and eventually push them to give it a shot. It's always beautiful to see people try out Rust and instantly fall in love with the language. In light of this, we'd love it if everyone reading this shared their experience learning rust on twitter/x with the hashtag #DiscoveringRust and tag @RustNigeria
In today's newsletter, we have a CLI tool for compressing and de-compressing GZIP, a tool for backing up Railway.app hosted Databases, an article about writing smart contracts in Rust, and a series of Rust classes being taught by a community member.
Open Source projects
DUGBE: A simple tool to backup Railway.app hosted Databases
Dugbe is a simple tool to backup Railway.app hosted Databases.
Railway.app is a great infrastructure platform but at the moment, your best bet backing up a database is connecting AWS. Dugbe aims to make this process easier by providing a simple CLI tool to back up your data.
This is what the author said about the name "Dugbe"
It's a nod to "my hometown". i grew up going to my dad's office at the Nigerian railway corporation at Dugbe in Ibadan.
Compressor-Decompressor in Rust
Emmanuel built a CLI tool that compresses and decompresses files using the GZIP format
Articles
Writing smart contracts in polkadot
If you are looking for a soft landing into polkadot and you don't want to bother about writing pallets yet while still enjoying solidity's style of writing smart contract. Then you have come to the right place.
In this article, by Ayo you will learn how to write smart contracts in polkadot and deploy the smart contract on a Testnet.
Spotlight
Ayomide Bajo teaches rust!
Ayomide took on the initiative to teach Rust to other members of the Nigerian Rust community.