rent new

Use rent new to scaffold an application with Cargo configuration, a starter User entity, generated client code, schema and migration directories, rent.toml, formatter settings, and development database configuration.

Start with SQLite

rent new social-app

Created ./social-app
Next: cd ./social-app && rent doctor

SQLite is the default and needs no container. The generated application creates rent.db locally.

Start with a server database

rent new social-app --database postgres

The database can be postgres, mysql, or mariadb. Every scaffold writes .env and .env.example; the server variants also add a compose.yaml for a local database container. Rent creates configuration; it does not start Docker automatically.

Choose a Cargo package name

rent new services/social --name social-service --database mariadb

The destination must be absent or empty. Rent refuses to merge a new scaffold into existing files.