[Cincinnati-pm] May cinci.pm status

[Jon Gentle]

Looking quickly at Data::Faker, I think we could make a Data::Faker::Cinci or Mock::RelationalData::Cinci . Anyone have any other thoughts?

-Jon Gentle





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From: mike at nrdvana.net
Sent: May 21, 2020 9:46 PM
To: cincinnati-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Cincinnati-pm] May cinci.pm status


On 5/19/20 11:59 PM, Jon Gentle wrote:
> Good Evening,
>
> I apologize, last week got away from me and I was unable to finish
> getting this scheduled. Because I felt there was not enough time
> between announcement and this Wednesday, I have decided to push this
> virtual cinci.pm to next Wednesday, May 27th. I have decided to use
> Google Meet for this meeting and have included the link to the meeting
> below, and have verified that no login is required to join. As
> discussed in this thread, we will be going over the start-to-finish
> process of creating a perl module that is able to be uploaded to cpan.
> I've scheduled the talk to start at 7:00pm, but I will be getting on
> early if you'd like to chit-chat a little before we get started. I
> hope to see or hear everyone then.
>
> Details:
> * What: Module from start-to-end
> * When: Wednesday, May 27th; discussion @ 7:00pm - 8:00pm
> * Where: Google Meet https://meet.google.com/kcq-qfkz-ars
> * Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Cincinnati-Perl-Mongers-Meetup/events/270760043/


I had an idea for what module to write.  (related to a project I'm
tinkering with, of course)

The module "Data::Faker" generates mock data.  It supports an easy
plugin system (just add modules to that namespace) and the modules are
extremely simple to write.  So, we could just bring lists of mad-lib
patterns to the meeting, and construct a module that adds new data types
to Data::Faker.  Such as, band names, album names, release dates,
fortunes, horoscopes, mission statements, and anything else you can
think of.

Meanwhile, I am working on a module "Mock::RelationalData" which does a
similar thing but on a multi-table relational scale. Data::Faker hasn't
been updated since 2013, and has blocking bugs for Win32, so I was
considering stealing the template system it uses to essential fork it,
and make my own plugin hierarchy, in which case (assuming I finish this
weekend) we could write plugins for my module.

Sound fun?
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