Not Just Cargo

Although Mommy is primarily intended to be invoked as cargo mommy, you can invoke her binary directly, or setup aliases to it.

If you try to make it into an alias, you should prefer pointing it to cargo-mommy directly, as this tends to play nicer with the rustup toolchain picker~ mommy will also respect CARGO to execute the right cargo for you~

REALLY Not Just Cargo

Now, this is a Developing Feature that's first shipping in 0.3.1, but...

If you want to use cargo-mommy for not-cargo programs, just set the CARGO_MOMMYS_ACTUAL environment variable to it, for example on linux you can do this:

CARGO_MOMMYS_ACTUAL=date cargo-mommy
Sun Nov 19 05:33:34 PM CET 2023
what a good girl you are~ ❤️

Enough people have been asking about this that we might end up just making a second dedicated "mommy" binary that supports this usecase more directly. We'll see~