There are some very practice oriented books for rust: zero to production, rust in action. And a third one that I didn’t read, it is game programming focused and seems pretty good. Something with “handmade”.
I believe the game programming one you are thinking of is “hands on rust” by Herbert Wolverson. I haven’t read all of it, the parts I have read are quite good but I’m not big into games so I switched over to rust in action.
That's actually one of the reasons that I asked. I am the author of Rust in Action and wondered if the person having trouble had investigated one of the more practical resources.