cargo-generate

cargo, make me a project

cargo-generate is a developer tool to help you get up and running quickly with a new Rust project by leveraging a pre-existing git repository as a template.

Here's an example of using cargo-generate with this template:

Installation

cargo install cargo-generate

cargo-generate has a few dependencies that need to be available before it can be installed and used.

openssl: See the openssl-sys crate readme on how to obtain the openssl library for your system.
git: It is used to download the templates.
cmake: Check if it is installed by typing cmake --version in a terminal or command line window. If it is not available, check your package manager or see the cmake homepage.

Usage

Standard usage is to pass a --git flag to cargo generate. This will prompt you to enter the name of your project.

cargo generate --git https://github.com/githubusername/mytemplate.git

You can also pass the name of your project to the tool using the --name flag:

cargo generate --git https://github.com/githubusername/mytemplate.git --name myproject

Templates

Templates are git repositories whose files contain placeholders. The current supported placeholders are:

{{authors}}: this will be filled in by a function borrowed from Cargo's source code, that determines your information from Cargo's configuration.
{{project-name}}: this is supplied by either passing the --name flag to the command or working with the interactive CLI to supply a name.
{{crate_name}}: the snake_case_version of project-name

Here's an example. If you have a great template that you'd like to feature here, please file an issue!

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution