cargo_auto_lib

Library crate for common tasks when building rust projects. Intended for use with cargo-auto.
repo; version: 0.1.15 date: 2021-08-13 authors: Luciano Bestia

Try it

In your rust project root directory (where the Cargo.toml is)
first install cargo-auto and generate a new helper project:

cargo install cargo-auto
cargo auto new

In a new editor open the generated directory automation_tasks_rs as an independent rust project.
Add to Cargo.toml dependencies:

cargo_auto_lib="0.1.13"

In the beginning of the function task_build() add:

cargo_auto_lib::auto_cargo_toml_to_md();

No need for cargo build, because the next cargo auto task_name will automatically build automation_tasks_rs.

Go back to your main rust project.
Add markers to the beginning of README.md (don't copy the numbers 1 and 2):

1 [comment]: # (auto_cargo_toml_to_md start)
2 [comment]: # (auto_cargo_toml_to_md end)

Run:

cargo auto build

With a little luck, it included the data of Cargo.toml into the README.md inside the markers:
description, repository, version, &utc_now(), authors

function auto_cargo_toml_to_md()

To avoid out of sync data like version, authors and description in the README.md files, auto_cargo_toml_to_md includes this data from Cargo.toml.
Run it on every build with cargo auto.

It works only for single projects and not for workspaces yet.
It works also with other md files in the project, not only README.md.
In the md file write these markers in markdown comments (invisible),
don't copy the numbers 1 and 2:

1 [comment]: # (auto_cargo_toml_to_md start)
2 [comment]: # (auto_cargo_toml_to_md end)

auto_cargo_toml_to_md deletes the old lines between the markers and includes the cargo.toml data:
description, repository, version, &utc_now(), authors

Run the example:

cargo run --example example_01_auto_cargo_toml_to_md

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cargo_auto_lib