Edit locally, compile remotely

^{proof of concept, might eat your laundry}

cargo at is a cargo subcommand that connects to a remote host via SSH, syncs the local source code of your Rust project, and builds it on the remote host.

This is useful when you have access to a more powerful machine than your local one, and want to use it to build and run your Rust projects (or a host with a different architecture).

Note: Windows support is... tricky at the moment (SSH, OpenSSL and rsync are all problem childs)

Prerequisites

• A working and accessible SSH server listening on the remote host
• ssh client installed on the local machine
• rsync installed on both machines (used for synchronizing the code)
• Rust and Cargo, installed on both machines
• The project you want to use this on must be located in a git repository

Installation

• Install this crate on both machines: cargo install cargo-at
• Add Cargo's binary directory to your path (as instructed by Cargo)
• Try it out locally: Run cargo at [email protected] build in the project root folder
• Try it out remotely: Like the previous step, but replace [email protected] with the remote host (eg. [email protected])