random-word

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.

Usage

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"

Factory Girl

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) #=> ...

Exclusion

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+/.

Constraining word length

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

Contributing to random-word

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Update history
• Update version (remember to use semantic versioning)
• Commit and push
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 OpenLogic, Inc. See LICENSE.txt for further details.