How to replace a string in a directory including directory name, file name & file content

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Hello,

I want to create a Rust program that provide a nodeJS template and automaticly replace directory name, file name & file content by the program name chosen by the user.

For instance this a a (simple) nodeJS template

{application-name-kebab-case}
      {application-name-lowercase}.js
      index.js

where index.js contains :

require("./{application-name-lowercase}.js").start();
  1. I am using the following pattern to match different naming convention
{application-name-PascalCase}
{application-name-camelCase}
{application-name-snake_case}
{application-name-lowercase}
{application-name-kebab-case}
{application-name-space-delimited}

Is there a proper way to fully replace in an entire directory both directory name, file name and content ?

For the moment, I have only find the std::fs::rename but it's pretty basic ?

Thanks in advance,

JP

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I found the amazing tool Ruplacer (GitHub - your-tools/ruplacer: Find and replace text in source files) that also manage naming convention. I am wandering whether I can use it as a library and not a cmd tool.

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This sounds quite similar to cargo-generate, although it looks like you'd need ashleygwilliams/cargo-generate#159.

Even so, you may be able to find some inspiration by skimming through its source code and seeing how they do things.

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It looks like it does expose an (undocumented) library API: ruplacer::DirectoryPatcher - Rust. I don't know how helpful it is, but it exists and can be depended on?

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