rustest-django

Django integration for rustest: a port of pytest-django exposed as a rustest fixture module.

Goal: existing pytest-django test suites run under rustest with only an import-path swap.

Status

The v1 supported tier is implemented and CI-verified: configuration resolution, the DB isolation engine, the fixture-module entry point, T1 core and selected T2 fixtures (client/rf, admin_*, settings, mailoutbox, query-assertion helpers, DB lifecycle fixtures), the unittest-style and unsupported-feature guards, rustest_django.asserts, and the rustest_django.django_db class decorator. The first release, 0.0.1, is published on PyPI. "v1" names the implementation scope; the package uses independent pre-1.0 versions.

The full design is written up in docs/spec.md, which links out to a section per topic (configuration, DB isolation, the public API, async support, testing and CI), with completed follow-ups and remaining work. Published-package docs: https://rustest-django.readthedocs.io/en/stable/. Unreleased main docs: https://rustest-django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

The current source also implements live server, serialized rollback and app-registry isolation, URL/template markers, django-configurations, and database suffixes. Project options support native TOML, compatible pytest TOML, and INI fallbacks. See Configuration and the remaining runner boundaries. These additions are unreleased; stable documents the published package.

Using it

# pyproject.toml
[project]
dependencies = ["rustest-django"]

# conftest.py
rustest_fixtures = ["rustest_django"]

That's the whole integration surface. Within the supported tier, an existing pytest-django test suite runs by swapping pytest_django imports for rustest_django (see docs/spec/api.md) and running rustest with --pytest-compat if any test files still import pytest directly.

Agent skills

Two agent skills help a coding agent work with rustest-django in your project:

• rustest-django-migrate-tests: port a pytest-django suite, including rewriting Django TestCase-family classes.
• rustest-django-doctor: diagnose a failing or confusing test as a suite problem or a known rustest-django limitation.

Install both with skills.sh, which supports Claude Code and other agents:

npx skills add ernestomancebo/rustest-django

The agent loads a skill when your request matches its description, so ask for the task, for example "migrate these tests to rustest-django".

Example projects

examples/ has three self-contained Django projects proving the name-swap claim for real, unmodified pytest-django test files:

• minimal-sqlite: T1 core end to end.
• multi-db: the databases= marker kwarg and cross-database isolation.
• async-views: async_client/async_rf and DB access from async tests.

Each one runs its tests/ directory under both real pytest and rustest --pytest-compat, and examples/compare_outcomes.py diffs the two outcome sets exactly. CI runs this across every supported Python/Django/DB combination (see .github/workflows/ci.yml).

Development

uv sync
uv run pre-commit install

See the Makefile for the common commands (make lint, make test, make build, make parity-test).

Attribution

This project is a port of pytest-django, copyright (c) pytest-django contributors, licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. See LICENSE.