Palladium-Fantasy-Character-Generator

Objective

Learning the basics and syntax of the Go programming language by creating a console app that builds characters for the Palladium table top RPG.

Getting Started

• Clone project
• cd into project root directory
  • cd into docker
  • run docker-compose up to bring up the database
  • use your favorite method to create db tables and insert data from the docker/db-dump/initDb.sql file
• Work through the build process below
• Run the program

Build Process

• Beginning at the repo root, initialize the project

  go mod init pfcg
  go mod tidy
  

  • This will create the go.mod and go.sum files
• Navigate to each sub-directory and build each module

  cd builder/
  go build .
  
  cd ../dbservice
  go build .
  

  • continue that until you have run a build in all sub-directories
  • the build command should finish without any errors
• Return to the root directory and install

  go install pfcg
  

  • You should be able to run the program now with the command

    pfcg
    

  • If the command is not found, try this first

    export PATH=$PATH:$(dirname $(go list -f '{{.Target}}' .))
    

  • Alternatively, you can run go build . and then run the binary that is created