cradoc

cradoc (a mot-valise for crate + documentation) leverages Rust's documentation generation to automatically maintain other documents up to date.

Actually, in the current version, it does only one thing: ensuring markdown files in your repo (eg the README.md) contain an up-to-date version of the crate documentation.

Insert <!-- cradoc --> in your markdown file where you want the crate documentation to appear, run cradoc in your repo, and the markdown file will be updated accordingly.

There are several previous crates with the same exact feature, most especially cargo-readme. It's very probable the crate you need is one of those previous ones.

The main reason I made this alternative is that cargo-readme does not currently properly handle intra-links (I guess this is being worked on, don't discard this much more mature crate).

To get an example of what cradoc produces, head up to the readme of lazy-regex. This README full of links is made from the crate's lib.rs which is also used for the crate documentation.

(other features should come later)