gistfile1.rb

require 'net/http'

require 'rubygems'
#I_KNOW_I_AM_USING_AN_OLD_AND_BUGGY_VERSION_OF_LIBXML2=true
require 'nokogiri'

# This class allow you to retrive "lorem ipsum" placeholder text from lipsum.com.
# 
# == What is "lorem ipsum"?
# 
# "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 
# Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, 
# when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type 
# specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap 
# into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was 
# popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem 
# Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus 
# PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum." (from lipsum.com)
# 
# == Synopsys
# 
#   require 'lipsum'
# 
#   t = Lipsum.new( )
#   t.paragraphs[3]
#   
#   puts t
# 
# === Initialization
# 
#   Lipsum::new( start = true )
#   
# If start is set to true, the placeholder text will start with 'Lorem ipsum 
# dolor sit amet...'.
# 
# === Create paragraphs, words, bytes or lists
# 
#   Lipsum.paragraphs[size]
#   Lipsum.words[size]
#   Lipsum.bytes[size]
#   Lipsum.lists[size]
#   
# With those methods, you can create placeholder texts with size `size'
# 
# === Print
# 
#   Lipsum.to_s
#   Lipsum.to_html
# 
# You can just 'puts' the Lipsum instance to print the text version. If you want 
# an html version, use Lipsum.to_html
# 
# == Requirements
# 
# This lib require nokogiri : http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/nokogiri/
# 
# == Licence
# 
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# 
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
class Lipsum 
  class AllTypes #:nodoc:
    def initialize(start)
      @amount = 1
      @what = nil
      @start = start
    end
    
    def [](n)
      @amount = n
      generate
      self
    end
    
    def to_s
      r = ""
      Nokogiri::XML.parse(@lorem_ipsum.to_s).xpath('/div[@id="lipsum"]/p').each do |p|
        r << p.content.to_s.strip << "\n\n"
      end
      r
    end
    alias_method :to_string, :to_s
    
    def to_html
      Nokogiri::XML.parse(@lorem_ipsum.to_s).xpath('/div[@id="lipsum"]/p').to_s
    end
    
    private
    
    def generate
      opts = {'amount' => @amount, 'what' => @what}
      opts['start'] = 1 if @start
      response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://lipsum.com/feed/html'), opts)
      html = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(response.body)

      @lorem_ipsum = html.xpath('//div[@id="lipsum"]')
    end
  end
  
  class Paragraphs < AllTypes #:nodoc:
    def initialize(start)
      super(start)
      @what = "para"
    end
  end
  
  class Words < AllTypes #:nodoc:
    def initialize(start)
      super(start)
      @what = "words"
    end
  end
  
  class Bytes < AllTypes #:nodoc:
    def initialize(start)
      super(start)
      @what = "bytes"
    end
  end
  
  class Lists < AllTypes #:nodoc:
    def initialize(start)
      super(start)
      @what = "lists"
    end
    
    def to_s
      r = ""
      Nokogiri::XML.parse(@lorem_ipsum.to_s).xpath('/div[@id="lipsum"]/ul').each do |ul|
        r << ul.content.to_s.strip.split(/\n/).map { |x| "* " << x }.join( "\n" )
        r << "\n\n"
      end
      r
    end
    
    def to_html
      Nokogiri::XML.parse(@lorem_ipsum.to_s).xpath('/div[@id="lipsum"]/ul').to_s
    end
  end
  
  def initialize(start = true)
    @start = start
  end
  
  # Create paragraphs
  def paragraphs
    @lipsum = Paragraphs.new(@start)
  end
  
  # Create words
  def words
    @lipsum = Words.new(@start)
  end
  
  # Create bytes
  def bytes
    @lipsum = Bytes.new(@start)
  end
  
  # Create lists
  def lists
    @lipsum = Lists.new(@start)
  end
  
  # Retrieve text
  def to_s
    @lipsum.to_s
  end
  alias_method :to_string, :to_s
  
  # Retrieve test in HTML format
  def to_html
    @lipsum.to_html
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  t = Lipsum.new(true)
  t.paragraphs[4]
  puts "TEXT :"
  puts t
  puts "HTML :"
  puts t.to_html
end