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Add warning about rust-analyzer not working if you clone and use the repo directly #2131

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Expand Up @@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ cargo install rustlings

{% end %}

**Warning:** Don't try to clone the repository to do the exercises! `rust-analyzer` won't
work in that case. Please follow the instructions above instead.

{% details(summary="Why?") %}

The intended way to run Rustlings is to install the binary and run `rustlings init` as
described in the installation/initialization sections. This generates a `Cargo.toml`
(different than what you see in the repository) that includes each exercise as a
separate binary target which is enough for `rust-analyzer` to work.

If you just clone the repository and try to run and edit the exercises directly, the
language server will not work.

{% end %}

## Initialization

After installing Rustlings, run the following command to initialize the `rustlings/` directory:
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