Spawner

A ridiculously simple fixtures replacement for your web framework of choice.

Description

Spawner is a very small library (just 14 lines of code) that can effectively replace fixtures or any other huge library for the same task.

Usage

In the examples below we are using Faker to generate random data, but you can use any method.

With ActiveRecord:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  spawner do |user|
    user.name = Faker::Name.name
    user.email = Faker::Internet.email
  end
end

With Sequel:

class User < Sequel::Model
  extend Spawner

  spawner do |user|
    user.name = Faker::Name.name
    user.email = Faker::Internet.email
  end
end

If you don't want to pollute your class definition, you can of course use it from outside:

User.spawner do |user|
  user.name = Faker::Name.name
  user.email = Faker::Internet.email
end

Then, in your test or in any other place:

@user = User.spawn

Or, if you need something special:

@user = User.spawn :name => "Michel Martens"

Installation

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
$ sudo gem install soveran-spawner

Thanks

Thanks to Foca (http://github.com/foca/) for his suggestions and Pedro (http://github.com/peterpunk/) for the original gemspec.

License

Copyright (c) 2009 Michel Martens for Citrusbyte

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.