Is there a way to allow rust-analyzer to work on nightly?

[connortsui20]

I tried to sort of follow the rust-analyzer docs with this:

# mimicking this: { "rust-analyzer.server.extraEnv": { "RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN": "stable" } }
[language-server.rust-analyzer.server.extraEnv]
RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN = "nightly"

But that didn't work out. Also, it doesn't work for the beta toolchain either.

Anyone have a solution to this?

[woojiq]

Afaik either use nightly toolchain (for all) or don't install ra via rustup (install separately).

[connortsui20]

So default to nightly always?

Edit: that didn't work, im going to try installing RA separately

Edit: I'm stupid

[connortsui20]

Whoops it looks like I made a mistake, I downloaded rust analyzer only on my stable toolchain and not on my nightly toolchain.

Do either this for global

rustup default nightly
rustup component add rust-analyzer

Or in a specific directory:

rustup override set nightly
rustup component add rust-analyzer

As long as you're on a nightly toolchain, add rust analyzer to that. My mistake is that I thought rustup component add _ adds for all toolchains.