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route won't get called, resulting in a 404 error.
## Overview
## Documentation
Rocket employs code generation to remove the need for boilerplate involved with
parsing requests and request parameters, prevent invalid and/or incorrect
requests from invoking a user's request handler, and allow the user to define
what is valid and/or correct.
Rocket is extensively documented:
Rocket uses type _guards_, or _constraints_, on request handlers to
accomplishing it's safety and correctness goals. In Rocket, handlers are _only_
invoked if all types that appear in the request handler's argument list can be
derived from the incoming request.
In their simplest incarnation, guards can be types expected of parameters in a
matched path. This is illustrated in the previous example where the `hello`
request handler is only be invoked if the dynamic path parameter `<age>` parses
as a `u8`. Guards can also be derived directly from a request. For instance, you
can define an `AdminUser` type that can be derived only if the proper cookies
were sent along with the request. Then, by simply including the type in a
handler's argument list as follows:
#[get("/admin/post/<id>")]
fn admin(user: AdminUser, id: isize) -> { .. }
you can be assured that the handler will be invoked _only_ if an administrative
user is logged in. Any number of such guards can be included. For example, to
retrieve the request's cookies along with the admin user, simply include the
`&Cookies` type in the argument list:
#[get("/admin/post/<id>")]
fn admin(user: AdminUser, cookies: &Cookies, id: isize) -> { .. }
Full documentation about built-in request guards is coming soon.
* [Quickstart](guide/quickstart): How to get started as quickly as possible.
* [Getting Started](guide/getting_started): How to start your first project.
* [Overview](overview): A brief introduction.
* [Guide](guide): A detailed guide and reference to every component.
* [API Documentation](api): The "rustdocs" (API documentation).
## Building
### Nightly
Rocket requires a nightly version of Rust as it makes heavy use of syntax
extensions. This also means that the first two unwieldly lines in the Rust file
above are required.
extensions. This means that the first two unwieldly lines in the introductory
example above are required.
### Core, Codegen, and Contrib
All of the Rocket libraries are managed by Cargo. As a result, compiling them is
simple.
* Core: `cd lib && cargo build`
* Codegen: `cd codegen && cargo build`
* Contrib: `cd contrib && cargo build`
### Examples
Try running the examples in the `examples/` folder. For instance, the following
sequence of commands builds and runs the `Hello, world!` example:
Rocket ships with an extensive number of examples in the `examples/` directory
which can be compiled and run with Cargo. For instance, the following sequence
of commands builds and runs the `Hello, world!` example:
```
cd examples/hello_world
cargo run
```
Then visit `localhost:8000`. You should see `Hello, world!`.
You should see `Hello, world!` by visiting `http://localhost:8000`.
### OS X
## Testing
Apple has stopped shipping `openssl` with OS X.11. As such, if your build fails
to compile with some `openssl` related errors, you'll need to install `openssl`,
`cargo clean`, and then `cargo build` again. Here are some lightweight
instructions:
To test Rocket, simply run `./scripts/test.sh` from the root of the source tree.
This will build and test the `core`, `codegen`, and `contrib` libraries as well
as all of the examples. This is the script that gets run by Travis CI.
```
brew install openssl
brew link --force openssl
export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=`brew --prefix openssl`/include
export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=`brew --prefix openssl`/lib
```
### Core
Testing for the core library is done inline in the corresponding module. For
example, the tests for routing can be found at the bottom of the
`lib/src/router/mod.rs` file.
### Codegen
Code generation tests can be found in `codegen/tests`. We use the
[compiletest](https://crates.io/crates/compiletest_rs) library, which was
extracted from `rustc`, for testing. See the [compiler test
documentation](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/COMPILER_TESTS.md)
for information on how to write compiler tests.
## Contributing
Contributions are absolutely, positively welcome and encouraged! Contributions
come in many forms. You could:
1. Submit a feature request or bug report as an [issue](https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues).
2. Comment on [issues that require
feedback](https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22feedback+wanted%22).
3. Contribute code via [pull requests](https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/pulls).
We aim to keep Rocket's code quality at the highest level. This means that any
code you contribute must be:
* **Commented:** Public items _must_ be commented.
* **Documented:** Exposed items _must_ have rustdoc comments with
examples, if applicable.
* **Styled:** Your code should be `rustfmt`'d when possible.
* **Simple:** Your code should accomplish its task as simply and
idiomatically as possible.
* **Tested:** You must add (and pass) convincing tests for any functionality you add.
* **Focused:** Your code should do what it's supposed to do and nothing more.
All pull requests are code reviewed and tested by the CI.