Random Ramble
Generating random nonsense, because of reasons.
🏗 We be Wipping 🏗
In the life of an agile project, the most exiting aspect of it, by far, is naming the sprint… Well, no, ending the sprint is better, because there's the celebration at the pub afterward.
Still, naming the sprint is important. So much so that my coworkers often find themselves frozen by the responsibility of finding a good, meaningful name. Or maybe it is total disinterest and boredom.
Anyway, I came up with a solution to these problems: introducing RandomRamble.
*Cough*
In reality, I just wanted a pretext to play around with Rust.
Silliness Automated
So yeah, the goal of this project was initially, to help us come up with a name for our sprints. We decided to take some inspiration from the naming of Ubuntu version. Where every six months they unveil a new iteration labeled with an adjective followed by an animal specie name, both starting with the same letter. As of the time of writing the last release is dubbed "Hirsute Hippo", with "Impish Indri", just around the corner.
But we couldn't just blatantly plagiarized Canonical, that wouldn't be Gucci at all. So we settled with an adjective followed by a superhero name (and also Disney character because peer pressure).
Here's how I would generate a batch of 25 candidates for the sprint 'd':
rr \
-n 25 \
--themes superhero disney \
--adjs en \
-- d
Click to show the command output
Discerning Dynamo Delicate Donald Duck Dependent Donald Duck Delightful Donald Duck Diligent Deadpool Depressed Dory Difficult Dory Didactic Dory Dainty Dragonfly Dramatic Downburst Determined Daredevil Dizzy Deadpool Distrustful Dory Disagreeable Dory Disagreeable Daredevil Delightful Dory Doubtful Dash Detestable Dory Decisive Doctor Strange Dramatic Donald Duck Discreet Donald Duck Difficult Dynamo Deep Dragonfly Drab Donald Duck Depressed Dash
Less talky, more cody
Let's get this started, shall we?
Generating random couple of words from a list. That's a job for a simple 10 lines script if I ever saw one!
…or I could make an over-engineered badly-engineered Rust project. I've been wanting to put my newly acquired Rust skill to the test, since I just finished reading The Book.
Assembling the team
If you say "cli", I say "clap", if you say "how to make sens out of a seemingly unordered data in a clean and efficient way", I say er "serde".
When I started this toy project I didn't knew much of Rust ecosystem (still don't but eh) except that clap and serde are great and they got their place right there in the Cargo.toml.
TODO: more rambling about the dependencies of the project.
Invest now, write a lib!
From the beginning I envisioned this small silly project could help me down the line in writing more small silly projects. That's why I decided to split the "randomness" code logic from the CLI. The idea was simply to load the lib ask it to generate some random stuff and let whatever asked for it do whatever it wanted with the result.
Conveniently, Rust allow for such use-case with its Workspace.
TODO: present the tree structure of the project.
Is it any good, though?
No.