the-rubies-way / fake_picture

Simple way to generate fake pictures by included in gem pictures for your blog, user and other type of seeds for dev env or even RSpec tests

FakePicture

Welcome to my new gem! This is a gem for simple seeding, testing and etc by uploading fake pictures. Now you don't need to create too many folders with pictures, because you can use this gem which can give you the path to a random picture of a selected category or file if you need it.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fake_picture'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fake_picture

Usage

FakePicture::Avatar:

FakePicture::Avatar.man     #=>  /Users/username/workdirectory/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/avatar/pack/man-4.jpg

FakePicture::Avatar.woman   #=>  /Users/username/workdirectory/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/avatar/pack/woman-4.jpg

You can also call the method person if you want to get a random avatar:

FakePicture::Avatar.person     #=> "/Users/username/Workplace/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/avatar/pack/woman-5.svg"

FakePicture::Blog:

FakePicture::Blog.preview    #=>  /Users/username/workdirectory/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/blog/pack/preview-4.jpg

FakePicture::People:

FakePicture::People.man     #=>  /Users/username/workdirectory/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/people/pack/man-4.jpg

FakePicture::People.woman   #=>  /Users/username/workdirectory/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/people/pack/woman-4.jpg

FakePicture::company:

FakePicture::Company.logo    #=>  /Users/username/workdirectory/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/company/pack/logo-11.svg

As file:

You can also call a method file with the method name of this class if you wanna get a picture as a file for some actions, like this:

FakePicture::People.file(:man)   #=> #<File:/Users/username/Workplace/fake_picture/lib/fake_picture/avatar/pack/man-6.svg>

As Base64:

You can also call a method base64 with a method name of this class if you want to get the picture as a base64 encoded file for might be sending it somewhere, like this:

FakePicture::People.base64(:man)   #=> ""/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDAAwICQoJBwwKCgoNDQwOEh4TEhAQ\nEiQaGxUeKyYtLComKSkvNUQ6L.."

In factories:

FactoryBot.define do
  factory :gallery do
    file { FakePicture::Blog.file(:preview) }
  end
end

In specs:

it 'some create user test' do
    post :create, params: {
        user: {
            name: 'John',
            avatar: FakePicture::Avatar.file(:man)
        }
    }
end

In seeds:

User.create(name: 'John', avatar: FakePicture::Avatar.file(:man))

Development

Run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run rake console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/loqimean/fake_picture.

To-Do

• add commerce pictures, like "products", and certain product types, e.g. "car", "phone" and like this, might be "cakes" 🙂

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Thanks for your support!