Docs.rs

Docs.rs (formerly cratesfyi) is an open source project to host documentation of crates for the Rust Programming Language.

Docs.rs automatically builds crates' documentation released on crates.io using the nightly release of the Rust compiler.

This readme is for developing docs.rs. See the about page for user-facing documentation.

Changing the build environment

To make a change to the build environment and test that it works on docs.rs, see the wiki.

Development

The recommended way to develop docs.rs is a combination of cargo run for the main binary and docker-compose for the external services. This gives you reasonable incremental build times without having to add new users and packages to your host machine.

Git Hooks

For ease of use, git_hooks directory contains useful git hooks to make your development easier.

# Unix
cd .git/hooks && ln -s ../../.git_hooks/* . && cd ../..
# Powershell
cd .git/hooks && New-Item -Path ../../.git_hooks/* -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value . && cd ../..

Dependencies

Docs.rs requires at least the following native C dependencies.

• gcc
• g++
• pkg-config
• git
• make
• cmake
• zlib
• openssl

There may be other dependencies that have not been documented.

Getting started

Make sure you have docker-compose and are able to download ~10GB data on the first run.

git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs.git docs.rs
cd docs.rs
# Configure the default settings for external services
cp .env.sample .env
# Create the CRATESFYI_PREFIX directory
mkdir -p ignored/cratesfyi-prefix/crates.io-index
# Builds the docs.rs binary
cargo build
# Start the external services
docker-compose up -d db s3
# Build a sample crate to make sure it works
# This sets up the docs.rs build environment,
# including running the migrations and installing the nightly Rust toolchain.
# This will take a while the first time but will be cached afterwards.
cargo run -- build crate regex 1.3.1
# Generate important files for the web navigation
cargo run -- build add-essential-files
# This starts the web server but does not build any crates.
# It does not automatically run the migrations, so you need to do that manually.
cargo run -- database migrate
# Start the web server. It doesn't automatically reload templates though!
cargo run -- start-web-server
# If you want the server to automatically reload templates if they are modified:
cargo run -- start-web-server --reload-templates

If you need to store big files in the repository's directory it's recommended to put them in the ignored/ subdirectory, which is ignored both by git and Docker.

Pure docker-compose

If you have trouble with the above commands, consider using docker-compose up, which uses docker-compose for the web server as well. This will not cache dependencies as well - in particular, you'll have to rebuild all 400 whenever the lockfile changes - but makes sure that you're in a known environment so you should have fewer problems getting started.

Please file bugs for any trouble you have running docs.rs!

Running tests

Tests are only supported via cargo and do not work in docker-compose

cargo test

Most tests require access to the database. To run them, set the CRATESFYI_DATABASE_URL in .env to the url of a PostgreSQL database, and set the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, S3_ENDPOINT, and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY variables. We have some reasonable default parameters in .env.sample.

For example, if you are using the docker-compose environment to run tests against, you can launch only the database and s3 server like so:

docker-compose up -d db s3

If you don't want to use docker-compose, see the wiki page on developing outside docker-compose for more information on how to setup this environment. Note that either way, you will need docker installed for sandboxing with Rustwide.

Docker-Compose

The services started by Docker-Compose are defined in docker-compose.yml. Three services are defined:

name	access	credentials	description
web	http://localhost:3000	N/A	A container running the docs.rs binary
db	postgresql://cratesfyi:password@localhost:15432	-	Postgres database used by web
s3	http://localhost:9000	cratesfyi - secret_key	Minio (simulates AWS S3) used by web

Rebuilding Containers

To rebuild the site, run docker-compose build. Note that docker-compose caches the build even if you change the source code, so this will be necessary anytime you make changes.

FAQ

I keep getting the error standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused "no such file or directory" when I use docker-compose.

You probably have CRLF line endings. This causes the hashbang in the docker-entrypoint to be /bin/sh\r instead of /bin/sh. This is probably because you have git.autocrlf set to true, set it to input instead.

CLI

See cargo run -- --help for a full list of commands.

Starting the web server

# This command will start web interface of docs.rs on http://localhost:3000
cargo run -- start-web-server

build subcommand

# Builds <CRATE_NAME> <CRATE_VERSION> and adds it into database
# This is the main command to build and add a documentation into docs.rs.
# For example, `docker-compose run web build crate regex 1.1.6`
cargo run -- build crate <CRATE_NAME> <CRATE_VERSION>

# Builds every crate on crates.io and adds them into database
# (beware: this may take months to finish)
cargo run -- build world

# Builds a local package you have at <SOURCE> and adds it to the database.
# The package does not have to be on crates.io.
# The package must be on the local filesystem, git urls are not allowed.
cargo run -- build crate --local /path/to/source

database subcommand

# Adds a directory into database to serve with `staticfile` crate.
docker-compose run -- database add-directory <DIRECTORY> [PREFIX]

# Updates github stats for crates.
# You need to set CRATESFYI_GITHUB_USERNAME, CRATESFYI_GITHUB_ACCESSTOKEN
# environment variables in order to run this command.
# You can set this environment variables in ~/.cratesfyi.env file.
docker-compose run -- database update-github-fields

If you want to explore or edit database manually, you can connect to the database with the psql command.

. .env
psql $CRATESFYI_DATABASE_URL

The database contains a blacklist of crates that should not be built.

# List the crates on the blacklist
cargo run -- database blacklist list

# Adds <CRATE_NAME> to the blacklist
cargo run -- database blacklist add <CRATE_NAME>

# Removes <CRATE_NAME> from the blacklist
cargo run -- database blacklist remove <CRATE_NAME>

daemon subcommand

# Run a persistent daemon which queues builds and starts a web server.
cargo run -- daemon --registry-watcher=disabled
# Add crates to the queue
cargo run -- queue add <CRATE> <VERSION>

Updating vendored sources

The instructions & links for updating Font Awesome can be found on their website. Similarly, Pure-CSS also explains on theirs.

When updating Font Awesome, make sure to change $fa-font-path in scss/_variables.scss (it should be at the top of the file) to ../-/static. This will point font awesome at the correct path from which to request font and icon resources.

Contact

Docs.rs is run and maintained by the docs.rs team. You can find us in #docs-rs on Discord.