The purpose of this gem is to generate realistic test data.
Generate a random user like so:
u = RandomUser.new
The following fields are available (all except the name are lazily-loaded):
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first_name, last_name, full_name: Chosen from lists of common first and last names in the United States.
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nickname: short one-word all-lowercase name appropriate for a username/login/handle, based on real name.
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password: random eight characters.
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email: email address based on nickname and common email domains.
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avatar_url: URL to an avatar image on allavatars.com.
If a nickname or email address is taken, you can regenerate them:
u.regenerate_nickname u.regenerate_email
Generate a random text like so:
g = MarkovTextGenerator.new g.random(2)
This will generate two sentences of text based on the Markov algorithm. The initializer accepts any sufficiently-long string to be used as a pattern. The gem includes Aesop’s fairy tales (used by default), Alice in Wonderland, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Latin gibberish (lorem ipsum…).
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2009 Paul Canavese. See LICENSE for details.