Dicer is still available on hex.pm, but will not be worked on anymore. Check out my new replacement project at gitlab.com named Rollex.
A dice roller expression evaluator written in Elixir!
- Erlang 17 or greater
- Elixir 1.0.1
- git (to clone the repository)
mix escript.build
From here, execute rolls like this:
$ dicer "1+2+3"
iex -S mix
From here, execute rolls like this:
iex(1)> Dicer.roll "1+2+3"
In your mix.exs file:
def application do
[mod: {MyApp, []},
applications: [:dicer]]
end
and this:
defp deps do
[{:dicer, "0.4.0"}]
end
Dicer is an elixir application that lets you evaluate dice rolls with simple arithmetic operators.
- The operators supported are
+, -, /, *. - Grouping is via parentheses
- Polyhedral dice are designated using the
<quantity>d<sides>format (Ex. 20d8 or D100). - Fudge/Fate dice are designated using the
<quantity>dFformat (Ex. 42dF) - You can ask Dicer to take the top or bottom X rolls via the
^<quantity>(take top) andv<quantity>(take bottom) symbols (Ex. 10d100^5 [take top 5 results from 10 rolls of a 100-sided die])
Because it was a fun, somewhat non-trivial way to work in Elixir.
Thanks to Lukasz Wrobel for his short series on parsing. Part 3 was my template for my code, even if it took me way too long to translate the loops into recursive function calls!