Idea: Making a book and splashy website about proptest

[Centril]

Some inspiration:

• serde.rs <-- for books
• tokio.rs
• rocket.rs <-- this just looks amazing.

[Centril]

For now I've registered proptest.rs with istanco.com and setup DNS as follows:

Name	Type	TTL	Target
proptest.rs	A	300	192.30.252.154
proptest.rs	A	300	192.30.252.153
www	CNAME	300	proptest.github.io
proptest.rs	NS	300	ns1.istanco.com
proptest.rs	NS	300	ns2.istanco.com

[AltSysrq]

I would have preferred if you hadn't spent your money predicated on me making a decision.

a book

What would you suggest would go here? The longer tutorials would be a good fit I suppose, but is there a good way to do that without loosing easy testability of the examples?

splashy website

I'm personally not a big fan of these. I'm also utterly incompetent at making websites. If you want to go ahead and put something together though, go ahead.

[Centril]

I would have preferred if you hadn't spent your money predicated on me making a decision.

Hehe =P I got carried away ;)

I think we should initially start with just having a gh-pages site that just contains cargo doc stuff and then we can make something better later.

What would you suggest would go here?

As you say.. the longer tutorials, which would include notes on how you use custom derive, more case studies (longer examples), etc. I think serde.rs is what we should aspire too with the book, it seems pretty nice.

It seems that mdBook supports running tests: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/mdBook/cli/test.html

I'm personally not a big fan of these. I'm also utterly incompetent at making websites. If you want to go ahead and put something together though, go ahead.

I'm pretty decent at design (I think..), but I haven't done any web programming for some time. But that would give me a great reason to write some code using rocket.rs ;)
But let's make a great book first which I'd be happy to work on ^,-

[AltSysrq]

mdBook supports running tests

Good to know.

let's make a great book first

Sounds good to me. I unfortunately have some other stuff going on at the moment so I probably won't be able to do any serious work, but if you get something on a PR I can definitely review+merge. Hopefully things will be back to normal for me by next week though.

[matthew-russo]

Closing this one as the book is published here: https://altsysrq.github.io/proptest-book/intro.html
and we don't have any immediate plans for a website. If there are additional suggestions feel free to open a new issue