Bas-Man's Musings

In my previous series “Learning Rust”. I decided to attempt to learn some fairly basic rust concepts and constructs by working on a fairly simple project. This seemed to go fairly well. So I am now going to attempt to work on the same project, but this time, using Swift.

In the previous article in this series I went through some basics of documenting your rust code. I had hoped to be able to take advantage of another nice feature of rust. That being the fact that code examples are actually tested by rust. I will go through the changes I had to make for this to work.

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As with all projects. It’s important to create documentation. This is, as we know, very important when creating code. When we come back to a project after a break, or if someone new takes over. Documentation will help you remember or learn what the code does. The thinking that was behind certain decisions.

This is a quick followup on my progress in deconstructing SPF using Rust.
Today I was able to implement both A and MX mechanisms.

Fairly recently I changed my theme for my personal blog. I switched to Beautifulhugo. I find it to be a nice clean theme.

Beautifulhugo supports a lot of social sites. However, it is also missing some that I like. In particular Dev.to and Flipboard.

I had previously added these to the other theme I was using. So I went about adding them to Beautifulhugo.

Hi. In my previous article Looking at Regex in Rust. I covered some basics. Today I will go over some new things that I have learned, as I expanded on things that my regex expression needs to handle. In particular the need to handle the possible existence or none existence of qualifiers +,-,~,?.

If you have been following this series, you might know that I am playing with SPF records. I have turned my eye to a and mx mechanisms. As I started looking at the a mechanism. I noticed that my current approach using the standard string functions would probably be fairly difficult to implement. So I started to think about using the Regex crate. So this will be a look at how that went. The challenges and the things that I took away from the experience.

As I work through learning rust, I figured it was time to to start doing actual testing.

Why Test

Simple, it’s really essential when building anything beyond a few lines of simple code. Being able to run a series of reproducible tests as you develop; allows you to ensure that changes you make are not breaking exisiting code. You also have the option to develop using TDD.

Of course I have not adhered to any of this as I explore the basics of working with rust. But things are progressing and I should now see how testing basically works in the world of rust.

We often start small coding projects, and we often tend to start them off in a single file. But sometimes, the project naturally grows larger and more complex. The code thus becomes more difficult to manage in a single file.

At these times we often need to break the code up across multiple files so that we can focus on a particular functionality. This is where I found myself as I am toying with my SPF code.

As I mentioned in my previous article Deconstructing SPF Records with Rust. There is a case for using generics given the amount of overlap between the different mechanisms.