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Cryptozoologist generates random strings from animal, clothing item, and color pairings, as well as lorem ipsum style sentences.
You could get something like "orange-clownfish-turtleneck" or "magenta-three-toed-sloth-shoe-horn". It's fun and silly, because why not? The gem can be configured to use a custom delimiter, exclude dictionaries, or add in speciality dictionaries.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'cryptozoologist'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install cryptozoologist
In addition to the brief overview provided here, you can read more about each method, configuration, and general usage in the Docs section of this repo.
Cryptozoologist provides some fun stuff:
Cryptozoologist.random
: returns a string separated by a delimiterCryptozoologist.lorem(sentence_count)
: returns sentence_count
number of sentencesCryptozoologist.street_address
: returns a string formatted to US street address standardsCryptozoologist.city
: returns a string representing a cityCryptozoologist.state
: returns a string representing a stateCryptozoologist.full_name
: returns a full nameMore on this in the docs!
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We found that cryptozoologist demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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