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.
• WordPress WXR migration with saved analyses, HTML-to-Markdown and shortcode conversion, conflict/taxonomy review, recoverable 500-item execution batches, media-parent linking, progress reporting, and optional AI-assisted taxonomy mapping.
• Template and Lua script management with explicit syntax-check feedback, 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.
• Project-scoped typed domain events synchronize desktop views with shared-engine and future CLI mutations; persisted CLI notifications are consumed once, and the selected UI language is shared through settings.
• Headless bds-cli automation for rebuild/repair/render, publishing and Git sync, post/media/gallery creation, shared settings/projects, utility Lua tasks, JSON I/O, airplane-mode AI routing, and guarded launcher installation from Settings → Data or bds-cli install.
• Local MCP automation over stdio or a localhost-only stateless HTTP endpoint, with project resources, read/search/count tools, inert write proposals, explicit desktop approval, and opt-in Claude Code/Copilot configuration.
• 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.
• Integrated Git workflow with repository initialization, Git LFS image tracking, status and diffs, branch/file history, commits, remotes, cancellable fetch/pull/push, and post-pull filesystem reconciliation; network actions respect airplane mode.
• 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 — headless automation CLI over the shared engines
• crates/bds-mcp — packaged stdio MCP transport over the shared MCP engine
• 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.