Derring-Do

Derring-Do is a silly progress monitor that you can add to your console Ruby applications.

It will emit "encouraging" words periodically, to indicate progress is being made on a job. If the campaign (or job) is given a target, the progress will also include updates saying specifically how far the campaign has gone toward that target.

require 'derring-do'

# untargetted campaigns (with no specifical goal in mind)

derring do |campaign|
  1000.times do
    campaign.tally_ho!
    sleep 0.2
  end
end

# targetted campaigns (aiming for a particular goal)

derring do |campaign|
  campaign.target = 2000
  1000.times do
    campaign.tally_ho! 2
    sleep 0.2
  end
end

gem install derring-do

I wrote this mostly to teach myself how to use rspec. The idea occurred to me while mostly asleep, so while it may not be actually useful, it is certainly whimsical.

This library is placed in the public domain by the author, Jamis Buck. Do with it what you will. Please prefer good over evil.