A random word generator intended for use in test data factories. This library uses a large list (the wordnet corpus) of english words and provides an enumerator interface to that corpus that will return the words in a random order without repeats.
You can get a random word any where you need one. Just request the next of which ever word flavor you prefer.
RandomWord.adjs.next #=> "pugnacious"
RandomWord.nouns.next #=> "audience"This library was first developed to use in factories. It can be used with Factory Girl like this.
Factory.define(:user) do |u|
u.name { "#{RandomWord.adjs.next} User" }
u.email { "#{name.gsub(/ +/, '.')}@example.com" }
end
Factory(:user) #=> ...Words may be excluded by pattern, or exact match. To do this just add
an object that responds to #=== to the exclude list.
RandomWord.exclude_list << /fo+/
RandomWord.exclude_list << 'bar'This will prevent the return of the exact string "bar" and any word
which matches the regex /fo+/.
You can constrain the length of words provided by the nouns and adjs iterators like so:
RandomWord.nouns(not_longer_than: 56).next
RandomWord.adjs(not_shorter_than: 3).next
RandomWord.adjs(not_shorter_than: 16, not_longer_than: 672).next- Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
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