Re: Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

I'm not sure what you're trying to work on but a number of languages have a
features for this.  As mentioned above ruby has the Faker gem, python has a
few lorem libraries https://pypi.python.org/pypi/loremipsum/ and
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/loremipsum/

In whatever language you could just prase a quick way for grabbing lorem
text from http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml




On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Caplan, Priscilla <pcaplan_at_fsu.edu> wrote:

> Drupal has a lorem ipsum generator:
> https://drupal.org/project/drupal_ipsum
>
> General purpose lorem ipsum generator:  http://www.lipsum.com/
>
> Priscilla Caplan
> Florida State University Libraries
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Sean Hannan
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 7:00 AM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
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>
> In ruby, there's the ffaker gem (https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker),
> which itself is a port of Perl's Data::Faker.
>
> -Sean
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> Pottinger, Hardy J. [PottingerHJ_at_MISSOURI.EDU]
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
>
> Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I figured I'd better
> take this question here: my brain is trying to tell me that there's a
> service or app that makes "fake" metadata, kind of like "Lorem Ipsum" but
> you feed it your fields and it gives you nonsense metadata back. But, it
> looks right enough for testing. Yesterday, I had to make up about 50 rows
> of fake metadata to test some code that handles paging in a UI, and I had
> to make it all up by hand. This hurts my soul. Someone please tell me such
> a service exists, and link me to it, so I never have to do this again. Or
> else, I may just make such a service, to save us all. But I don't want to
> go coding some new service if it already exists, because that sort of thing
> is for chumps.
>
>
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