This class allow you to retrive “lorem ipsum” placeholder text from lipsum.com.

“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)

require 'lipsum'

t = Lipsum.new( )
t.paragraphs[3]

puts t

or

puts Lipsum.paragraphs[3]

Lipsum::new( start = true )

If start is set to true, the placeholder text will start with ‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…’.

Lipsum.paragraphs[size]
Lipsum.words[size]
Lipsum.bytes[size]
Lipsum.lists[size]

With those methods, you can create placeholder texts with size ‘size’

You can also use

Lipsum#paragraphs![size]

which is the same thing as

Lipsum.new(true).paragraphs[size]

or

Lipsum#paragraphs[size]

which is the same thing as

Lipsum.new(false).paragraphs[size]

This is also avalaible for words, bytes ans lists

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

This lib require nokogiri : nokogiri.rubyforge.org/nokogiri/

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