# 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 ```sh sudo av install brew:go-rice ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install go-rice ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#go-rice ``` Evidence: 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 facts - **Package key:** brew:go-rice - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.0.3 - **Source summary:** Easily embed resources like HTML, JS, CSS, images, and templates in Go - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-2-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-13T23:34:56+02:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-25T07:20:51+00:00 ## Executables - rice (cli) - rice (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-25 - Package-manager version: 1.0.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-13 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice - Upstream latest detected: v1.0.3 (current) ## 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. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** go-rice - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - go-rice: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/go-rice/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [go-statik](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go-statik/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: asset-embedding, cli, developer-tools, go, static-files. - [go-bindata](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go-bindata/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: asset-embedding, cli, developer-tools, go. - [go-blueprint](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go-blueprint/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, templates. - [templ](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/templ/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, templates. - [addlicense](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/addlicense/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go. - [ali](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ali/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go. - [anycable-go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/anycable-go/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go. - [asc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/asc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go. - [stuffbin](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/stuffbin/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, embed, embedding. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/go-rice.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/go-rice.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph