This is a tiny utility that injects env variables before running cargo commands.

I built this utility specifically because IntelliJ Rust does not support .env files, nor does the EnvFile plugin support Rust.

Otherwise, I recommend adding env variables through just, your shell, or other means.

Usage

# Runs `cargo run` with env coming from `.env`
cargo dotenv run

# Runs `cargo check` with env coming from `.env.production`
cargo dotenv -e .env.production check

You can run dotenv recursively arbitrarily. This fact is useless, but I find it amusing.

cargo dotenv dotenv dotenv dotenv dotenv dotenv dotenv dotenv dotenv check

Installation

cargo install cargo-dotenv

Issue Tracker

• EnvFile: https://github.com/ashald/EnvFile/issues/71
• IntelliJ (YouTrack): https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-137820