Employee Database

This repo contains code for maintaining a database for all employees within a company. The user can add employees to a department, fetch the list of employees belonging to a particular department, and print out the list of all employees of the company according to their departments, in alphabetical order.

The project was written in Rust.

Preview

$ cd <project_root> 
$ cargo run
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.02s
     Running `target\debug\employee_database.exe`
Welcome to the Company Employee Database!
Select an option:
(1) Add an employee
(2) Get employee names within a department
(3) Get all employee names by department
(4) Quit
1
Enter a new employee info in the format 'Add <employee_name> to <department_name>':
e.g., Add Sally to Engineering
Add Rezwan to Engineering


Select an option:
(1) Add an employee
(2) Get employee names within a department
(3) Get all employee names by department
(4) Quit
2
Enter department name:
Engineering
Members of the department are:
["Rezwan"]

Select an option:
(1) Add an employee
(2) Get employee names within a department
(3) Get all employee names by department
(4) Quit
3
Here are the employees by department:
Engineering:
["Rezwan"]

Select an option:
(1) Add an employee
(2) Get employee names within a department
(3) Get all employee names by department
(4) Quit
4

Requirements

• rustc 1.84.0 (9fc6b4312 2025-01-07)

Setup

The following instructions assume the user has Ubuntu as their local machine's OS. Most instructions should work for other Linux distributions as well, though mileage may vary.

Step 1: Install Rust

Set up Rust (v1.84.0) on the local machine.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Step 2: Clone the project

Clone this GitHub repository into the local machine.

git clone --single-branch -b main <project_repo_url> <project_root> 

Step 3: Resolve dependencies

Install missing libraries required for running the project (if any).

cargo build

Step 4: Run the application

Run the application from the command-line. For quitting the application, type "4" and press Enter.

Usage

cd <project_root>
cargo run

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.