populator 0.2.3 → 0.2.4

data/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+0.2.4 (September 9th, 2008)
+
+* removing echoe from gem development dependencies, which didn't seem to work in the first place.
+
+* adding Populator.paragraphs to generate paragraphs of text
+
 0.2.3 (September 2nd, 2008)
 
 * support single table inhertance by setting inheritance_column to class name

data/Manifest

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ lib/populator/record.rb
 lib/populator.rb
 LICENSE
 Manifest
-populator.gemspec
 Rakefile
 README
 spec/database.yml

data/README

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 Populate an Active Record database with mass insert.
 
+You can find the rdocs at http://populator.rubyforge.org.
+
 Special thanks to Zach Dennis for his ar-extensions gem which some of 
 this code is loosely based on.
 
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ The person object contains the "id" so you can set up associations.
 
 That will create 30 projects for each person.
 
-Passing an range or array of values will randomly select one.
+Passing a range or array of values will randomly select one.
 
   Person.populate(1000..5000) do |person|
     person.gender = ['male', 'female']
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ If you need to generate fake data, there are a few methods to do this.
   Populator.words(3) # generates 3 random words separated by spaces
   Populator.words(10..20) # generates between 10 and 20 random words
   Populator.sentences(5) # generates 5 sentences
+  Populator.paragraphs(3) # generates 3 paragraphs
 
 For fancier data generation, try the Faker gem.
 
@@ -82,5 +85,7 @@ This project can be found on github at the following URL.
 
 http://github.com/ryanb/populator
 
+If you find a bug, please send me a message on GitHub.
+
 If you would like to contribute to this project, please fork the 
 repository and send me a pull request.

data/Rakefile

@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@ require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 require 'echoe'
 
-Echoe.new('populator', '0.2.3') do |p|
+Echoe.new('populator', '0.2.4') do |p|
   p.summary        = "Mass populate an Active Record database."
   p.description    = "Mass populate an Active Record database."
   p.url            = "http://github.com/ryanb/populator"
   p.author         = 'Ryan Bates'
   p.email          = "ryan (at) railscasts (dot) com"
   p.ignore_pattern = ["script/*", "**/*.sqlite3", "tmp/*"]
+  p.development_dependencies = []
 end
 
 Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/tasks/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }

data/TODO

@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
-Features
-
 Possible
 - randomly fill every column if no block is passed to populate
 - add random_foo method to record for randomly generating content
 
-Performance
-- ensure instantiating the model is really that much of a performance hit.
-
 Support Environments
 - sqlite 2
 - old rails
 - edge rails
 
 Tests
-- automatically detect schema changes and rebuild database
 - add db:reset, db:drop and db:create rake tasks

data/lib/populator/random.rb

@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ module Populator
       end.join('. ')
     end
     
+    # Generate a given number of paragraphs. If a range is passed, it will generate
+    # a random number of paragraphs within that range.
+    def paragraphs(total)
+      (1..interpret_value(total)).map do
+        sentences(3..8).capitalize
+      end.join("\n\n")
+    end
+    
     # If an array or range is passed, a random value will be selected to match.
     # All other values are simply returned.
     def interpret_value(value)

data/populator.gemspec

@@ -1,30 +1,21 @@
 
-# Gem::Specification for Populator-0.2.3
+# Gem::Specification for Populator-0.2.4
 # Originally generated by Echoe
 
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: populator
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: 0.2.3
+  version: 0.2.4
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Ryan Bates
 autorequire: 
 bindir: bin
 
-date: 2008-09-02 00:00:00 -07:00
+date: 2008-09-09 00:00:00 -07:00
 default_executable: 
-dependencies: 
-- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
-  name: echoe
-  type: :development
-  version_requirement: 
-  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
-    requirements: 
-    - - ">="
-      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-        version: "0"
-    version: 
+dependencies: []
+
 description: Mass populate an Active Record database.
 email: ryan (at) railscasts (dot) com
 executables: []
@@ -56,7 +47,6 @@ files:
 - lib/populator.rb
 - LICENSE
 - Manifest
-- populator.gemspec
 - Rakefile
 - README
 - spec/database.yml
@@ -73,6 +63,7 @@ files:
 - tasks/deployment.rake
 - tasks/spec.rake
 - TODO
+- populator.gemspec
 has_rdoc: true
 homepage: http://github.com/ryanb/populator
 post_install_message: 

data/spec/database.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# you can add and remove entries to support different databases in tests.
+
 sqlite3:
   adapter: sqlite3
   database: spec/test.sqlite3
@@ -9,10 +11,3 @@ mysql:
   username: populator
   password: 
   host: localhost
-
-postgresql:
-  adapter: postgresql
-  database: populator_test
-  username: populator
-  password: populator
-  host: localhost

data/spec/populator/random_spec.rb

@@ -42,4 +42,8 @@ describe Populator::Random do
   it "should generate 3 random sentences" do
     Populator.sentences(3).split(/\. [A-Z]/).should have(3).records
   end
+  
+  it "should generate 3 random paragraphs" do
+    Populator.paragraphs(3).split(/\n\n/).should have(3).records
+  end
 end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: populator
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: 0.2.3
+  version: 0.2.4
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Ryan Bates
@@ -9,19 +9,10 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2008-09-02 00:00:00 -07:00
+date: 2008-09-09 00:00:00 -07:00
 default_executable: 
-dependencies: 
-- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
-  name: echoe
-  type: :development
-  version_requirement: 
-  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
-    requirements: 
-    - - ">="
-      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-        version: "0"
-    version: 
+dependencies: []
+
 description: Mass populate an Active Record database.
 email: ryan (at) railscasts (dot) com
 executables: []
@@ -53,7 +44,6 @@ files:
 - lib/populator.rb
 - LICENSE
 - Manifest
-- populator.gemspec
 - Rakefile
 - README
 - spec/database.yml
@@ -70,6 +60,7 @@ files:
 - tasks/deployment.rake
 - tasks/spec.rake
 - TODO
+- populator.gemspec
 has_rdoc: true
 homepage: http://github.com/ryanb/populator
 post_install_message: