ty - thank you

Please note: This is a beginners project!

A small tool to say thank you. ty is a command line tool, that takes a program name as input and sends it to our thank-you server. Every once in a while, we try to figure out who the authors of the thanked tools are and then try to deliver the collected gratitude for their work. Optionally, it takes a message.

Install

cargo install ty

You can install it with cargo (like above), or download a release build from github releases.

Usage

ty rustc

With a message:

ty rustc -m "The error message really helped me out, Cheers!"

If you just want to thank the last completed command, this is alias will do the trick.

alias ty='ty `history -p \!:0`'

$ cargo build --release 
    Compiling ...
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 12.04s
$ ty

Here, the ty becomes ty cargo since history expands !:0 to the first token of the most recent command.

Why?

First, it's a nice thing to say thank you from time to time for all the great work one is using every day. This hopefully makes it a little bit more convenient.

Also, this seems to be a nicely scoped project to get into rust and its ecosystem. Like cli tooling, building a simple webserver, how to organize a project, deploy it, and of course use the language itself.