Quixote

A simple tool for statefully generating time-series data. Requires Ruby 1.9 or greater.

In your shell:

gem install quixote

Then, in your application or script:

require 'quixote'

For each data stream you want to generate, set up a Quixote object. Here are some examples:

percentage = Quixote.new(min: 0, max: 100, range_by: 10)
fahrenheit = Quixote.new(min: -30.0, max: 120.0, range_by: 3.0)

If you don't specify any initialization options the object will be assumed to be a percentage and will default to the settings of the percentage object above.

An initial value will be randomly generated and can be accessed with #last:

percentage.last #=> 58

If you want to enforce a certain starting value, you can provide that as well:

percentage = Quixote.new(start: 15, min: 0, max: 100, range_by: 10)

By default each following value will range up or down by a random value up to a max of range_by. To get a series of stateful values just call #next:

percentage.next #=> 64
percentage.next #=> 66
percentage.next #=> 58

This makes it trivial to generate stateful runs of any length you want:

values = []
100.times { values << percentage.next }

values #=> [49, 55, 48, …]

You can use #last to retrieve the most recently generated number or move the range to a number you select at any time.

If you want more complex progression behavior you can provide your own lambda:

by_two = ->(last) { last + 2 }
incrementor = Quixote.new(start: 0, progress: by_two)

incrementor.last #=> 0
incrementor.next #=> 2
incrementor.next #=> 4

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Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Matt Sanders. See LICENSE for details.