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Rust Programming By Example

By : Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher
Book Image

Rust Programming By Example

By: Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher

Overview of this book

Rust is an open source, safe, concurrent, practical language created by Mozilla. It runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees safety. This book gets you started with essential software development by guiding you through the different aspects of Rust programming. With this approach, you can bridge the gap between learning and implementing immediately. Beginning with an introduction to Rust, you’ll learn the basic aspects such as its syntax, data types, functions, generics, control flows, and more. After this, you’ll jump straight into building your first project, a Tetris game. Next you’ll build a graphical music player and work with fast, reliable networking software using Tokio, the scalable and productive asynchronous IO Rust library. Over the course of this book, you’ll explore various features of Rust Programming including its SDL features, event loop, File I/O, and the famous GTK+ widget toolkit. Through these projects, you’ll see how well Rust performs in terms of concurrency—including parallelism, reliability, improved performance, generics, macros, and thread safety. We’ll also cover some asynchronous and reactive programming aspects of Rust. By the end of the book, you’ll be comfortable building various real-world applications in Rust.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
3
Events and Basic Game Mechanisms
Index

Integration tests


In the previous section, we checked that a part of our code works: now, we will check that the program as a whole works, by writing integration tests. These tests reside in the tests/ directory, so we start by creating it:

mkdir tests

In this directory, we can create a new file, tests/server.rs, in which we'll put the following content:

extern crate ftp;

use std::process::Command;
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

use ftp::FtpStream;

We import the ftp crate which is an FTP client; it will be useful to test our FTP server. We need to add it in Cargo.toml as well:

[dev-dependencies]
ftp = "^2.2.1"

Here we see a new section, dev-dependencies: it contains the dependencies that are needed outside the main crate itself, like in the integration tests. By putting the dependency here and not in [dependencies], it won't be available in the main crate, which is what we want.

Let's go back to the file tests/server.rs and add a test function:

#[test]
fn test_pwd() {
    let child...