Rank Panda

This repository contains the code for the drill-writing application Rank Panda, developed for and used by the Cornell Big Red Marching Band to design its shows.

Getting started

Prerequisites

Rank Panda requires a version of a Java runtime environment to be installed on the system. You may already have Java installed on your system; if not, you can download and install Adoptium's Temurin distribution from here.

Running the program

Once Java is installed, the latest version of Rank Panda (a .jar, or "Java archive", file) can be downloaded from the Releases page. Once downloaded, the file can be saved anywhere and run by double-clicking it¹.

Local development

Building

To build this project, first install Apache Maven (either manually or through an IDE like Eclipse).

Once installed, the project can be compiled by running the following on the command line in the root of the repository:

$ mvn compile

Tests can be run with the command:

$ mvn test

To build the standalone .jar file, run the command:

$ mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip

Once the command is finished, the Rank Panda .jar file can be found in the target/ directory.

Footnotes

1. If you're running the program on MacOS, you will need to override the Gatekeeper security warning by going to "System Settings > Privacy & Security", then selecting "Open Anyway" for the RankPanda-<version>.jar file. ↩