LastContinue / bidoof

A demo/for-fun project in Go

Bidoof

This is a just-for-fun app to learn some more Go(lang).

It just watches a message queue and does a few things.

I wanted it to be Pokemon themed, and I think the noble Bidoof is the closest to a gopher Pokemon there is. Also, it does do some beaver like activities (builds dams, swims, etc) so I'm guessing it can also "chew" through the message queue 😉

For this to work properly you'll need

• Amqp message queue (I used RabbitMQ)
• Mysql DB with an "attendees" table (see the sql file in the docs directory)
• Copy the .env_example file into .env and fill out the details (the queue name you specify should already exist)
• run go run bidoof.go

Optionally you can run it as part of a docker-compose stack with the Gist here https://gist.github.com/LastContinue/c7573904228ddda464c798b6817f4792

As the messages roll in (and assuming they are formatted properly) the app will log out what it's doing.