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Reverts google/comprehensive-rust#1975 Using `mdbook-pandoc` requires more than just installing the `mdbook` plugin: it requires - A whole LaTeX installation - A Pandoc installation - Some fonts This is essentially why the output is configured as optional in `book.toml`: the assumption is that people won't have `mdbook-pandoc` installed without the necessary supporting tools. @henrif75, I assume you added this because you didn't like the warning `mdbook build` prints: ``` % mdbook build 2024-04-16 10:45:56 [WARN] (mdbook::book): The output.html.curly-quotes field has been renamed to output.html.smart-punctuation. Use the new name in book.toml to remove this warning. 2024-04-16 10:45:56 [INFO] (mdbook::book): Book building has started 2024-04-16 10:45:57 [INFO] (mdbook::book): Running the exerciser backend 2024-04-16 10:45:57 [INFO] (mdbook::renderer): Invoking the "exerciser" renderer 2024-04-16 10:45:57 [INFO] (mdbook::book): Running the html backend 2024-04-16 10:45:58 [INFO] (mdbook::book): Running the pandoc backend 2024-04-16 10:45:58 [INFO] (mdbook::renderer): Invoking the "pandoc" renderer 2024-04-16 10:45:58 [WARN] (mdbook::renderer): The command `mdbook-pandoc` for backend `pandoc` was not found, but was marked as optional. ``` I don't have the necessary dependencies on my local system and this is what I get after installing `mdbook-pandoc`: ``` 2024-04-16 10:47:30 [INFO] (mdbook::renderer): Invoking the "pandoc" renderer Unable to run `pandoc -v`: No such file or directory (os error 2) 2024-04-16 10:47:30 [ERROR] (mdbook::renderer): Renderer exited with non-zero return code. 2024-04-16 10:47:30 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Error: Rendering failed 2024-04-16 10:47:30 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Caused By: The "pandoc" renderer failed ``` This also means that `mdbook serve` doesn't work unless all dependencies are installed. As an alternative, we could remove the `output.pandoc` settings from the `book.toml` file and use a small shell script to add them when needed. We actually have the same problem for the `mdbook-xgettext` output format which generates the POT files: we only want to run this occasionally. This is currently done by overriding `output` from the command line using the `MDBOOK_OUTPUT` environment variable: ```shell MDBOOK_OUTPUT='{"xgettext": {"pot-file": "messages.pot", "granularity": 0}}' \ mdbook build -d po ``` It's a bit ugly and it results in people missing/forgetting some of the configuration options we want them to use (the `granularity` setting). So I would like to move this configuration to the `book.toml` file — but I'm reluctant since I don't think we need to generate POT files on every build (it takes ~1 second and would slow down `mdbook serve`). Cc @max-heller in case you have ideas here.
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Comprehensive Rust 🦀
This repository has the source code for Comprehensive Rust 🦀, a multi-day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers all aspects of Rust, from basic syntax to generics and error handling. It also includes deep dives on Android, Chromium, bare-metal, and concurrency.
Read the course at https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/.
Course Format and Target Audience
The course is used internally at Google when teaching Rust to experienced software engineers. They typically have a background in C++ or Java.
The course is taught in a classroom setting and we hope it will be useful for others who want to teach Rust to their team. The course will be less useful for self-study since you miss out on the discussions happening in the classroom. You don't see the questions and answers and you don't see the compiler errors we trigger when going through the code samples. We hope to improve on this via speaker notes and by publishing videos.
Press
Articles and blog posts from around the web which cover Comprehensive Rust:
- 2023-09-08: Teaching Rust in 5 days. Comprehensive Rust was used as a base for a 5-day university class on Rust.
- 2023-09-21: Scaling Rust Adoption Through Training. We published a blog post with details on the development of the course.
- 2023-10-02: In Search of Rust Developers, Companies Turn to In-House Training. About how Microsoft, Google, and others are training people in Rust.
Building
The course is built using a few tools:
First install Rust by following the instructions on https://rustup.rs/. Then clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/google/comprehensive-rust/
cd comprehensive-rust
Then install these tools with:
cargo install mdbook
cargo install --locked mdbook-svgbob
cargo install --locked mdbook-i18n-helpers
cargo install --locked --path mdbook-exerciser
cargo install --locked --path mdbook-course
Run
mdbook test
to test all included Rust snippets. Run
mdbook serve
to start a web server with the course. You'll find the content on
http://localhost:3000. You can use mdbook build to create a static version
of the course in the book/ directory. Note that you have to separately build
and zip exercises and add them to book/html. To build any of the translated
versions of the course, run MDBOOK_BOOK__LANGUAGE=xx mdbook build -d book/xx
where xx is the ISO 639 language code (e.g. da for the Danish translation).
TRANSLATIONS.md contains further instructions.
Note
On Windows, you need to enable symlinks (
git config --global core.symlinks true) and Developer Mode.
Contact
For questions or comments, please contact Martin Geisler or start a discussion on GitHub. We would love to hear from you.