Random Aircraft Quiz Bot WIP

HavlokUK · September 12, 2017, 3:35pm

@HavlokUK has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

[OKB-1 150](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKB-1%20150)

HavlokUK · September 12, 2017, 3:36pm

HA HA HAAAAA! I had to have a go

fearlessfrog · September 12, 2017, 4:21pm

I never really finished it, and hate with a reasonable passion coding in Ruby (turtlenecks itch to wear, and I never really listened to a lot of Radiohead), but all the source code for extensions to the forum are open source here:

Essentially it relies on the structure of wikipedia, so if it was converted to donuts then it would need a ordered collection over there for that. The real meat of it is here:

github.com

fearlessfrog/discourse-randomaircraft-bot/blob/master/plugin.rb

# name: discourse-randomaircraft-bot
# about: returns a random aircraft from wikipedia to guess what it is
# version: 1
# authors: fearlessfrog
# url: https://github.com/fearlessfrog/discourse-randomaircraft-bot

after_initialize do

    require 'net/http'
    require "json"

    def get_random_aircraft_image()
        img_url = nil
        article_title = nil
        
        50.times do 
            article_title = get_random_aircraft_article()
            #puts "Title chosen as: #{article_title}"
            
            img_url = find_article_image(article_title) if article_title

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(Line 121 was meant to be secret, ssh don’t tell him)

komemiute · September 12, 2017, 4:25pm

[randomdonuts]

HavlokUK · September 12, 2017, 4:30pm

Ha ha

I wondered how he got three identical ones

fearlessfrog · August 6, 2018, 7:30pm

I forgot we had this. @chipwich asking for an aircraft reminded me.

To use, reply with the text (sorry for picture example Dark Theme people)…:

…in a message and it’ll try to make a quiz. It’s pretty dumb and uses wikipedia as the random choice, but the price is good. YMMV.

fearlessfrog · August 6, 2018, 7:31pm

@fearlessfrog has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

[Dayton-Wright XPS-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-Wright%20XPS-1)

near_blind · August 6, 2018, 8:09pm

My work mandated IE6 has disqualified me from this by refusing to understand HTML. So while I won’t guess the name, I will authoritatively state whatever it might be, it’s uggo af.

Navynuke99 · August 6, 2018, 8:21pm

Didn’t I post the XPS-1 in an earlier “guess the airplane” thread?

fearlessfrog · August 6, 2018, 10:23pm

Yeah, ‘random’ is a generous misnomer for the bot really - it only takes the first page or so from wikipedia (so is limited to early on in the alphabet) and even then it only uses ones with pictures. Dupes galore!

Bearhedge · August 6, 2018, 10:35pm

Haha that XPS-1 is hilarious! Looks like something out of a children’s book.

Navynuke99 · August 6, 2018, 11:13pm

You think that’s bad, check this one out:

Bearhedge · August 6, 2018, 11:15pm

“ … the pilot had no forward view, but was provided with flexible celluloid side windows …”

That’s…one way of doing it.

EAF51_Jimmi · August 27, 2018, 1:06pm

@EAF51_Jimmi has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Can’t see the photo!

Answer below (no peeking!)

[RTAF-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTAF-2)

sobek · August 27, 2018, 1:13pm

I am sad now.

Andrew116 · August 27, 2018, 3:48pm

I can’t see the photo on mobile… actually I don’t know if can see it on desktop either… I’ll get back to you lol

Navynuke99 · August 27, 2018, 3:52pm

…well now I’m not sleeping the rest of this week. I’d forgotten how many nightmares that scene gave me as a kid.

Franze · August 27, 2018, 5:01pm

For a PG rated film, they flew a lot of crap under the radar.

Navynuke99 · August 27, 2018, 5:46pm

Fun fact: Spaceballs was rated PG when it came out.

Bogusheadbox · August 27, 2018, 6:40pm

@Bogusheadbox has asked for a Random Aircraft quiz.

Answer below (no peeking!)

What did you expect Mr B?