LinuxFortune

DESCRIPTION:

Provides a wrapper to the ‘fortune’ program on linux (and unix /parameters might differ/) platforms. As most (good) web servers are running on these platforms, a ‘local’ fortune gem seemed like a good idea to play around and discover ruby gem development through a practical example.

If you need a network-based fortune service, though, you might want to check out lacco’s ruby_fortunes at github.com/lacco/ruby-fortunes

FEATURES:

  • allows generating messages from all or specific fortune database modules

  • possibility to generate short (up to LinuxFortune.short_length characters) messages

ISSUES:

  • LinuxFortune.long = true seem to have no effect due to issue with fortune (?)

SYNOPSIS:

To use it:

require 'rubygems'
require 'linux_fortune'
f = LinuxFortune.generate("chucknorris")
puts f.body

To search fortunes:

require 'rubygems'
require 'linux_fortune'
fs = LinuxFortune.search("develop")
puts "#{fs.size} hits:"
fs.each do |f|
  puts f.source
  puts f.body
end

REQUIREMENTS:

  • fortune must be installed, with some fortune db modules

INSTALL:

  • gentoo: sudo emerge fortune

  • ubuntu, debian: apt-get install fortune

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2010 György Schreiber

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