executorMap for vscode code runner rust files. Checks if the directory is examples and executes current file, or performs a standard cargo run.

settings.json

"code-runner.executorMap": {
        "rust": "if [ $(basename $dir) = 'examples' ]; then cargo run --example $fileNameWithoutExt; else cargo run; fi",
}

Copy the user settings for "code-runner.executorMap" and update the "rust" attribute (other languages removed for clarity).

OMG! I wasted 3 days trying to figure out why VSCode/Atom can't run files with code runner and can't see additional crates. No one on Matrix Chat, official forum and Stack Overflow could help and this just made it work! Thanks so much! Do you know how to fix auto completion not working for rand crate for example?

Thanks for pointing out where the key is for this issue. Been driving me batty too. However, doesn't seem like your solution is currently being interpreted properly by it. I'm basically a beginner for both rust and vscode (tried learning rust a few years ago, but didn't get far, chose the wrong documentation to study from, etc..) Anyways, I get this:

Am I missing something? At this point should I basically not worry about the conditional and just have it unconditionally do a "cargo run"?

Thanks.

@Psy-Kosh,

When I ran cargo build it was fine. When I ran it inside VSCode it failed.

All I needed to do was alter /VScode/Preferences/Settings.json:

{
    "explorer.confirmDelete": false,
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
    ....
    ...
    ..
    "code-runner.executorMap": {
        "rust": "if [ $(basename $dir) = 'examples' ]; then cargo run --example $fileNameWithoutExt; else cargo run; fi",
    }
}

hope that helps.