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Learning Rust by creating a terminal clock - Part 2

Bill Mitchell — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:17:20 +0000

In the last post I had just added the progress bar for the month. I also noted that the code is in desperate need of a clean up but I haven't got there yet. I'm having too much fun adding new features and learning things. Although I will have to get there eventually.

Adding a CI pipeline

Since that last post one of the main things I accomplished was to add a CI pipeline to the project using Travis CI. This is something I've done before in my various PHP projects but not with Rust. It had also been a while since I used Travis CI but it's so simple to use it didn't take long to figure it out again.

Basically I just needed to enable my GitHub repository in Travis CI and commit a .travis.yml file which I've done here:

https://github.com/bmitch/relogio/blob/master/.travis.yml

With that configuration, Travis CI will run the following commands in the pipeline:

  - cargo build --verbose --all
  - cargo test --verbose --all

Power of open source

I also had someone contribute to the project which was great. Shout out to

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Noah Trupin

V and Swift.

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for the help. They made several contributions since my last post which are much appreciated.

Year Progress

Finally, I added one more progress bar for the year countdown. I think this will probably be the last progress bar. I'm not sure if I'll add the century countdown progress bar or not.

I really need to do some code cleanup.
I want to research other possible tools to use in the CI pipeline (linters, code sniffers, code quality etc...)
Prototype some UI design ideas.
Add some more issues for other possible features.

As always any and all feedback is appreciated!

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Bill Mitchell — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:15:00 +0000

Learning Rust by creating a terminal clock - Part 1

Bill Mitchell — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:19:21 +0000

In the last (and first) post of this series I introduced the Rust project I created to help me learn Rust. The project is a terminal clock.

At that time I had the minute and hour progress bar complete.

Latest update today is I've added the day and month progress bar.

I'm basing this project off of https://github.com/rothman857/chronometer which also lists a year and century progress bar which I may also add but I'm not 100% sure on that yet.

I've created a few issues. One which I'm particularly interested in is creating a CI pipeline. Will have to investigate what types of tools are available for Rust (linters, code quality analysis etc...) so if anyone has any ideas please leave a comment.

The code is also in desperate need of a cleanup. I'm in "get it to work no matter how ugly" mode right now so it may be time to take a step back and do some refactoring which should make continuing on with the project more efficient.

Any and all feedback is appreciated. Feel free to log an issue or send a pull request in the repo: https://github.com/bmitch/relogio

Learning Rust by creating a terminal clock - Part 0

Bill Mitchell — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 23:26:22 +0000

I'm in the process of learning Rust. I am a believer in the best way to learn a language is to just start using it.

So with that, I've created https://github.com/bmitch/relogio which is a terminal clock, written in Rust and very much inspired by the https://github.com/rothman857/chronometer project.

The goal of this project is to build a cool terminal clock while learning Rust at the same time.

I've got a very initial version working. The code may not be the best but as I go I intend to clean it up as I learn things.

Are you experienced with Rust and want to provide feedback? That would be great, I welcome any and all feedback.

Are you also new to Rust and trying to learn it? Feel free to follow me as I continue on with the project.

Have some feature ideas or found a bug? Please feel free to open an issue on the project. Thanks!

https://github.com/bmitch/relogio