RuDS

RuDS is a native Rust blogging desktop application and the successor to bDS2. It manages local projects from authoring through preview, static-site generation, integrity checks, and publishing while preserving the existing bDS filesystem and SQLite formats.

The project is under active development. Core blogging workflows are broadly available; remaining core work and optional extensions are tracked separately.

Available Features

• Native Iced desktop workspace with localized menus, tabs, sidebars, dialogs, tasks, and embedded Wry previews.
• Post and translation authoring with draft/published lifecycle, metadata, tags, categories, links, media, and batch gallery-image import.
• Media import, thumbnails, metadata translations, filters, validation, and post assignment.
• Template and Lua script management using a custom Ropey/Syntect/Cosmic Text editor and the documented, bDS2-signature-compatible project-scoped bds host API across utilities, rendered macros, and Blogmark transforms.
• SQLite and filesystem persistence with frontmatter, sidecars, rebuild, metadata diff/repair, and FTS5 search.
• Markdown/Liquid rendering with native macros, multilingual routes, feeds, sitemap, Pagefind, and incremental site generation through cancellable section task groups.
• Local preview in the app or system browser.
• Optional one-shot AI translation, description, analysis, taxonomy, and language-detection operations using online or local OpenAI-compatible endpoints with airplane-mode gating.
• SSH-agent-based SCP or rsync publishing.
• Site, media, and translation validation plus ruds://new-post Blogmark capture and Lua transforms; bDS2 keeps its separate bds2:// bookmarklet protocol.

RuDS uses no JavaScript application runtime and loads no CSS or JavaScript from CDNs. The preview is served by the Rust application and displayed by the operating-system webview.

Repository Map

• crates/bds-core — data, engines, rendering, AI, publishing, and Lua
• crates/bds-editor — reusable syntax-highlighting editor
• crates/bds-ui — desktop application and platform integration
• crates/bds-cli — planned automation CLI
• specs — authoritative Allium behavior specifications
• fixtures — compatibility projects and generated-site fixtures
• locales — UI and native-menu translations

Plans and References

• Core plan and current status
• Extension plan and current status
• Specification index
• UI style guide
• ../bDS2 — reference implementation when an Allium contract is ambiguous

Contributor workflow and project invariants are documented in AGENTS.md.