Dashing Chuck Norris Fact Generator Job

Readme.md

Description

Dashing job to render personalised Chuck Norris based facts into a text widget.

This job utilises the Internet Chuck Norris Database JSON api.

A randomly chosen forename and surname from an array of team members is chosen and passed to the icnd json api, and a Chuck Norris based fact, with the Chuck and the Norris replaced with our teammembers name is returned, and then sent to a dashing widget.

Installation

Put the chuck.rb file into the /jobs directory.

Add an entry into your dashboard file - see the example.

If you need to use a proxy, populate the details in chuck.rb and comment/uncomment the appropriate res = ... line.

Some of the icnd jokes might be seen to be a bit cheeky, so use can try to limit those by altering the limitTo attribute - see the api.

chuck.rb

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'cgi'

#The Internet Chuck Norris Database
server = "http://api.icndb.com"

#Id of the widget
id = "chuck"

#Proxy details if you need them - see below
proxy_host = 'XXXXXXX'
proxy_port = 8080
proxy_user = 'XXXXXXX'
proxy_pass = 'XXXXXXX'

#The Array to take the names from
teammembers = [['Mickey','Mouse']]

SCHEDULER.every '30s', :first_in => 0 do |job|
    random_member = teammembers.sample
    firstName = random_member[0]
    lastName = random_member[1]

    #The uri to call, swapping in the team members name
    uri = URI("#{server}/jokes/random?firstName=#{firstName}&lastName=#{lastName}&limitTo=[nerdy]")

    #This is for when there is no proxy
    res = Net::HTTP.get(uri)

    #This is for when there is a proxy
    #res = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host, proxy_port, proxy_user, proxy_pass).get(uri)
    
    #marshal the json into an object
    j = JSON[res]

    #Get the joke
    joke = CGI.unescapeHTML(j['value']['joke'])

    #Send the joke to the text widget
    send_event(id, { title: "#{firstName} #{lastName} Facts", text: joke })

end

dashboard.erb

...
<div data-id="chuck" data-view="Text" data-title="Team Facts" data-moreinfo="Team Member Facts.">
...

Cool thing, thank you very much!
I'll keep it on our dashboards as long as my boss lets me. :-)

Cool. We used to have this for Jenkins.