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Install go-rice with Homebrew, Nix

Easily embed resources like HTML, JS, CSS, images, and templates in Go. Version 1.0.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-13. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#go-rice.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install go-rice

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#go-rice

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/go/go-rice/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Easily embed resources like HTML, JS, CSS, images, and templates in Go

Commands and aliases

  • rice

history

Project history and usage

go.rice is a Go resource-embedding library and command-line tool for bundling web assets, templates, and other static files into Go programs.

Project history

The public repository for go.rice was created in 2013 by GeertJohan, during the period when Go projects commonly used external generators to ship self-contained binaries with static assets. Its README describes a development/deployment split: during development it reads resources from disk, while the rice tool can embed generated Go source or append a zip payload to a built executable for deployment.

Adoption history

go.rice became one of the named tools in the pre-embed era of Go asset packaging. The Go project's later embed design documents described the broader ecosystem problem as one with many tools that required a manual generation step, the same workflow category that go.rice served.

How it is used

Practitioners use go.rice by declaring boxes such as rice.FindBox("html-files"), serving them through HTTP helpers, reading template strings, and running rice embed-go or rice append before distributing a standalone executable.

Why package nerds care

The Homebrew formula matters because it exposes the rice executable as a small packaging-time helper for Go programs that predate or cannot yet use the standard //go:embed workflow.

Timeline

  • 2013: GitHub repository created for go.rice.
  • 2021: Go 1.16 added standard static-file embedding through //go:embed, changing the ecosystem around tools such as go.rice.

Related projects

  • Related Go asset-embedding tools include statik and the standard library embed package introduced in Go 1.16.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:image

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
ricecliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-25
manager version1.0.3
manager updated2026-06-13
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.0.3

https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:go-rice
Version1.0.3
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/go-rice
Homepagehttps://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice
Repositoryhttps://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice
Upstream docshttps://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice#readme
LicenseBSD-2-Clause
Source archivehttps://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.3.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-13T23:34:56+02:00
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namego-rice
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

go-rice

nix profile install nixpkgs#go-rice
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Go Rice
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/go-rice/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • go-statikShares av.db curated category or tags: asset-embedding, cli, developer-tools, go, static-files.
  • go-bindataShares av.db curated category or tags: asset-embedding, cli, developer-tools, go.
  • go-blueprintShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, templates.
  • templShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, templates.
  • addlicenseShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go.
  • aliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment