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-rw-r--r--askama/src/lib.rs30
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/askama/src/lib.rs b/askama/src/lib.rs
index 613c8d9..c800b3c 100644
--- a/askama/src/lib.rs
+++ b/askama/src/lib.rs
@@ -30,11 +30,12 @@
//! recognized:
//!
//! * `path` (as `path = "foo.html"`): sets the path to the template file. The
-//! path is interpreted as relative to the `templates` dir in the directory
-//! where the originating crate's `Cargo.toml` resides. The file name
-//! extension is used to infer an escape mode (see below). In web framework
-//! integrations, the path's extension may also be used to infer the content
-//! type of the resulting response. Cannot be used together with `source`.
+//! path is interpreted as relative to the configured template directories
+//! (by default, this is a `templates` directory next to your `Cargo.toml`).
+//! The file name extension is used to infer an escape mode (see below). In
+//! web framework integrations, the path's extension may also be used to
+//! infer the content type of the resulting response.
+//! Cannot be used together with `source`.
//! * `source` (as `source = "{{ foo }}"`): directly sets the template source.
//! This can be useful for test cases or short templates. The generated path
//! is undefined, which generally makes it impossible to refer to this
@@ -55,6 +56,20 @@
//! the `html` escape mode is used; otherwise, no implicit escaping is done.
//! Setting an escape mode explicitly overrides the inferred value.
//!
+//! ## Configuration
+//!
+//! At compile time, Askama will read optional configuration values from
+//! `askama.toml` in the crate root (the directory where `Cargo.toml` can
+//! be found). Currently, this only covers the directories to search for
+//! templates.
+//!
+//! This example file demonstrates the default configuration:
+//!
+//! ```toml
+//! [general]
+//! # Directories to search for templates, relative to the crate root.
+//! dirs = ["templates"]
+//! ```
//!
//! ## Variables
//!
@@ -418,9 +433,8 @@ fn visit_dirs(dir: &Path, cb: &Fn(&DirEntry)) -> io::Result<()> {
/// Build script helper to rebuild crates if contained templates have changed
///
-/// Iterates over all files in the template dir (`templates` in
-/// `CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR`) and writes a `cargo:rerun-if-changed=` line for each
-/// of them to stdout.
+/// Iterates over all files in the template directories and writes a
+/// `cargo:rerun-if-changed=` line for each of them to stdout.
///
/// This helper method can be used in build scripts (`build.rs`) in crates
/// that have templates, to make sure the crate gets rebuilt when template