AdjectiveAnimal

Creates an adjective and an animal. Things like "Hulking Hornet", "Ambivalent Duck" and "Overjoyed Beaver". That's all it does.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'adjective_animal'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install adjective_animal

Usage

There are four fun and exciting ways to use adjective_animal:

  • Create a random adjective animal.

    aa = AdjectiveAnimal.new
aa.adjective = "Overjoyed"
aa.animal = "Beaver"

  • Create an adjective animal with the same starting letter

    aa = AdjectiveAnimal.new(:k)
aa.adjective = "Knowledgeable"
aa.animal = "Kangaroo"

  • Create an array of 26 adjective animals that start with the letters A-Z

    aa = AdjectiveAnimal.all
# [#<AdjectiveAnimal::AdjAni:0x0000010378fe48 @adjective="Accessible", @animal="Alpaca", @starts_with="a">,
#<AdjectiveAnimal::AdjAni:0x0000010377ec88 @adjective="Better", @animal="Baboon", @starts_with="b">,
#<AdjectiveAnimal::AdjAni:0x000001036949a8 @adjective="Cloudy", @animal="Camel", @starts_with="c">,
#<AdjectiveAnimal::AdjAni:0x00000103686dd0 @adjective="Didactic", @animal="Deer", @starts_with="d">
...] to Z

  • Fork the gem and add your own stupid stuff to it. This is a really good way to procrastinate when you are supposed to be working on seed data.

Helpers

aa = AdjectiveAnimal.new
# yield both adjective and animal together as a string
aa.to_s  =  "Tawdry Cod"
# if typing 'adjective' is too much work, you can type 'adj'
aa.adj = "Tawdry"
# and 'ani'
aa.ani = "Cod"
# but wait, theres more! You can also do 'first_name' and 'last_name'
aa.first_name = "Tawdry"
aa.last_name = "Cod"
# you can also pass a string or symbol, upper or lower case as an argument to new()
aa = AdjectiveAnimal.new(:K)
aa = AdjectiveAnimal.new('k')

Uses

I can imagine three possible uses for this gem.

  • Liven up your seed or factory data! User.first_name = 'Test' and User.last_name = 'User' is boring. A user named "Lowly Herring" is good times.
  • Create names for medieval or fantasy Inns! "The Broken Beetle" is a great place to find adventure. I think it would also work for taverns, bordellos and alehouses.
  • Start conversations with people more attractive than you. They would go something like: > You: "Hi, have you heard of the gem adjective_animal?"

Them: "Who are you? Please get away from me."

Note: I have only tested one of the above uses, so YMMV.

FAQ

  • Q: What about the gem faker, isn't that a better gem?
  • A: Yes it is, in pretty much every way imagineable. You should probably use it.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/adjective_animal/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request