Quizzo

Quizzo is a Discord bot for making simple quizzes.

Development

This bot is powered by the Twilight library for the Rust programming language. Before running the bot, the following environment variables must be set:

Variable	Description	Required?	Default
PORT	Network port to bind to when launching the bot.	✔
PUB_KEY	Hex-encoded cryptograhpic public key provided by the Discord Developer Portal.	✔
APP_ID	Application ID provided by the Discord Developer Portal.	✔
BOT_TOKEN	Bot token provided by the Discord Developer Portal.	✔
PG_PORT	Port at which the PostgreSQL instance is hosted.	❌	5432
PG_HOSTNAME	Hostname at which the PostgreSQL instance is hosted.	✔
PG_DATABASE	Default database to which the PostgreSQL driver must connect to.	✔
PG_USERNAME	Username for PostgreSQL user authentication.	✔
PG_PASSWORD	Password for PostgreSQL user authentication.	✔

Once these are available, one may use Rust's built-in package manager Cargo to launch the bot.

# Initalize the `data/` folder for PostgreSQL
deno task init

# Start the PostgreSQL instance
deno task db

# Initialize the template database
deno task template

# Instantiate the template
deno task create

# Register the required commands
BOT_TOKEN=
GUILD_ID=
deno task register

# Start the bot!
PORT=
APP_ID=
PUB_KEY=
PG_PORT=5432
cargo run --release