cargo_auto_lib

Library crate for common tasks when building rust projects. Intended for use with cargo-auto - automation tasks written in Rust language.
version: 1.3.35 date: 2024-02-28 author: Bestia.dev repository: GitHub

Hashtags: #rustlang #buildtool #developmenttool
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Try it

First, install the tool for task automation in Rust projects:

cargo install cargo-auto

Generate a new Rust CLI project:

cargo auto new_cli hello_world

Open the hello_world project in VSCode:

code hello_world

Open the generated directory automation_tasks_rs as an independent rust project in VSCode.

code hello_world/automation_tasks_rs

Now we can analyze the automation code. There is already this dependency inside Cargo.toml for our library:

cargo_auto_lib="1.1.2"

Review the code in automation_tasks_rs/main.rs. The cl:: namespace is the alias for cargo_auto_lib.
Example:

/// cargo build --release
fn task_release() {
//    let cargo_toml = CargoToml::read();
    cl::auto_version_increment_semver_or_date();
    cl::auto_cargo_toml_to_md();
    cl::auto_lines_of_code("");

    cl::run_shell_command("cargo fmt");
    cl::run_shell_command("cargo build --release");
    println!(
        r#"{YELLOW}
    After `cargo auto release`, run examples and tests
    if ok, then,{RESET}{GREEN}
cargo auto doc{RESET}{YELLOW}
{RESET}"#
    );
    print_examples_cmd();
}

You can see this function will increment the version in Cargo.toml.
Then it will copy some data from Cargo.toml to README.md (title, description, version, author,...).
It will count the lines of code and create badges in README.md.
Then comes the traditional Rust part: cargo fmt and cargo build --release.
Finally, it will show on the screen the instructions on how to continue developing.

Run (in your main rust project):

cargo auto release

Now open the README.md and you will see the data that this automation task copied from other places. Therefore you change this data only in one place, the automation task copies them wherever needed.

Caveats

This crate will attempt to edit Cargo.toml. Unfortunately, there's no great robust way right now to edit TOML file preserving formatting and comments and such, so right now I use just regex to do this.
If you find that the heuristics don't work for you though please let me know and I'll try to check in a fix!

Development details

Read the development details in a separate md file:
DEVELOPMENT.md

Releases changelog

Read the release changelog in a separate md file:
RELEASES.md

TODO

Nothing big for now.

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