Drupal has a lorem ipsum generator:  https://drupal.org/project/drupal_ipsum

General purpose lorem ipsum generator:  http://www.lipsum.com/

Priscilla Caplan
Florida State University Libraries

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sean 
Hannan
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 7:00 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

In ruby, there's the ffaker gem (https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker), which 
itself is a port of Perl's Data::Faker. 

-Sean
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From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Pottinger, 
Hardy J. [pottinge...@missouri.edu]
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 11:51 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I figured I'd better take 
this question here: my brain is trying to tell me that there's a service or app 
that makes "fake" metadata, kind of like "Lorem Ipsum" but you feed it your 
fields and it gives you nonsense metadata back. But, it looks right enough for 
testing. Yesterday, I had to make up about 50 rows of fake metadata to test 
some code that handles paging in a UI, and I had to make it all up by hand. 
This hurts my soul. Someone please tell me such a service exists, and link me 
to it, so I never have to do this again. Or else, I may just make such a 
service, to save us all. But I don't want to go coding some new service if it 
already exists, because that sort of thing is for chumps.


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