In reply to @djacu:matrix.org

olaf: You might be interested in what I was proposing for the module tutorials update. It's probably not as comprehensive as what you have in mind but might be suitable for smaller tests that don't need the infrastructure of a full nixos-test.

For my workshop, I created lessons where the code was separate from the markdown and inserted at build time of the site. Each example was evaluated/built and the result was also injected into the markdown. Essentially creating a system where the site would not build if the examples failed to evaluate. I didn't do any checking to make sure the answer was correct but that could be added.

The way I did this was pretty hacky and sometimes cursed (and definitely not the way we should do it on nix.dev) but it's what I had to do given my time constraints. With more time I would have needed to run Nix inside of Nix or come up with some other solution.

In reply to @djacu:matrix.org

olaf: You might be interested in what I was proposing for the module tutorials update. It's probably not as comprehensive as what you have in mind but might be suitable for smaller tests that don't need the infrastructure of a full nixos-test.

For my workshop, I created lessons where the code was separate from the markdown and inserted at build time of the site. Each example was evaluated/built and the result was also injected into the markdown. Essentially creating a system where the site would not build if the examples failed to evaluate. I didn't do any checking to make sure the answer was correct but that could be added.

The way I did this was pretty hacky and sometimes cursed (and definitely not the way we should do it on nix.dev) but it's what I had to do given my time constraints. With more time I would have needed to run Nix inside of Nix or come up with some other solution.

In reply to @symys:fnord.theinfinitycorporation.com
Hey I noticed a style issue with nix.dev ... the hyperlink color (when not highlighted) is the same color as the blue in-depth explanation expandable backgrounds.

In reply to @symys:fnord.theinfinitycorporation.com
Hey I noticed a style issue with nix.dev ... the hyperlink color (when not highlighted) is the same color as the blue in-depth explanation expandable backgrounds.

In reply to @olafklingt:matrix.org
I can have a look as it's caused by my pr

In reply to @fricklerhandwerk:matrix.org
The NixOS admonition and the footnote were essentially the same thing, and the footnote requires jumping around. Or did we miss something? I’ll fix up the breakage of course

I'm going through the packaging tutorial at https://nix.dev/tutorials/packaging-existing-software.html and evaluating the example skeleton derivation gives a error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting end of file. Is this a typo?

{ stdenv }:
stdenv.mkDerivation {	};

# shouldn't it be this instead
❯ nix-instantiate --eval --expr '{ stdenv }: stdenv.mkDerivation {}'
<LAMBDA>

In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
stablejoy: Nice catch! Would you mind PRing that quick fix?