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Pedantic Clippy

One of the reasons developers love Rust is its well-developed ecosystem. Clippy, a linter for the Rust code, is one of the main components in this ecosystem. It performs additional checks of the developed code reporting found issues and explaining how to fix them (and sometimes it even can fix them automatically). Its usage may be beneficial for Rust beginners and even professionals. In this article, I describe this tool and explain how to start using it.

Sep 7, 2021 26 min read development
Testing Errors in Rust

Currently besides all other activities, I am developing a habit of programming following Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology. This is a perfect time because I continue to explore Rust, a new programming language to me. Moreover, this language encourages you to cultivate this best practice by providing great documentation and well-thought ecosystem.

In our programs, we often face with exceptional situations (e.g., lack of space when you try to write a file, or absence of a resource), and we need to handle them. If you follow the TDD approach, you need to ensure that these exceptional situations are also properly covered in your tests. Id est, you have to develop tests that reproduce these exceptional situations and make sure that your code detect and handle them correctly. In this post, I want to discuss how to test exceptional situations in Rust.

Jan 14, 2021 18 min read development