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So I heard you wanted to misuse some tools to generate some fake content for your Jekyll site
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require 'date' | |
require 'httparty' | |
require 'timecop' | |
dawn_of_time = DateTime.parse '2016-01-01' | |
today = DateTime.now | |
while today > dawn_of_time do | |
Timecop.freeze today do | |
d = DateTime.now.strftime '%Y-%m-%d' | |
slug = HTTParty.get('http://loripsum.net/api/1/short/plaintext').downcase.gsub(/[^a-z0-9\s]/i, '').split(' ')[10..13].join('-') | |
filename = "#{d}-#{slug}" | |
File.open "blog/_posts/#{filename}.md", 'w' do |f| | |
2.times do | |
f.write "---\n" | |
end | |
f.write HTTParty.get('http://loripsum.net/api/plaintext/10') | |
end | |
today -= 10 | |
end | |
end |
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