You write raw SQL files that do exactly what you want them to do: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/thanks/tree/master/migr... each of these has an up.sql and a down.sql

"diesel migraiton run" will run all pending migrations, there's revert/redo as well. "diesel migration generate" can generate these files and directories for you; it doesn't yet (that I know of) have helpers to write the SQL though (like Rails does for its migrations).

On deploy, it runs the migrations first https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/thanks/blob/master/buil...

I believe there are some interesting improvements coming down the line in the future, but for now, it works pretty well.