Update rake task for better creation of test posts.

4 files changed, 58 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 21d2861..44d0628 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+$:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
 require 'yaml'
+require 'lib/random'
 
 task :default => [:'site:deploy:development']
 
@@ -41,12 +43,12 @@ namespace :site do
   end
 end
 
-namespace :posts do
+namespace :test_posts do
   desc 'Creates several test posts.'
   task :create => [:clean, :create_directory] do
-    year = Time.now.year
-    (1..20).each do |day|
-      save_post(Time.new(year, 1, day), "Dummy post #{day}")
+    (1..@config['num_test_posts']).each do |day|
+      date, title, category = TestPosts::Random.generate
+      save_post(date, title, "Testing", "A test post", category, true)
     end
   end
 
@@ -57,15 +59,21 @@ namespace :posts do
 
   desc 'Creates the required posts directory if one does not exist.'
   task :create_directory => [:load_config] do
-    Dir.mkdir(@config['posts']) unless File.directory?(@config['posts'])
+    dir = @config['posts'] + '/test'
+    FileUtils.mkdir_p(dir) unless File.directory?(dir)
   end
 
 private
-  def save_post(date, title)
+  def save_post(date, title, author, description, categories, test = false)
     template = File.read("templates/post.markdown")
     template.gsub!(/:title/, title)
+    template.gsub!(/:author/, author)
+    template.gsub!(/:description/, description)
+    template.gsub!(/:categories/, categories)
 
-    filename = "#{@config['source']}/_posts/#{date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}-#{parameterize(title)}.markdown"
+    filename = "#{@config['source']}/_posts"
+    filename << '/test' if test
+    filename << "/#{date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}-#{parameterize(title)}.markdown"
     File.open(filename, 'w') { |f| f.write(template) }
   end
     
diff --git a/_config.yml.example b/_config.yml.example
index 54f8732..aaf1025 100644
--- a/_config.yml.example
+++ b/_config.yml.example
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # ***************************
-# SITE CONFIG
+# SITE
 # ***************************
 
 # Set to true when building the site for production.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ copyright_year:
 #feedburner:
 
 # ***************************
-# JEKYLL CONFIG
+# JEKYLL
 # ***************************
 
 # Markdown engine that will be used.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ destination: public
 permalink: /archives/:year/:month/:day/:title/
 
 # ***************************
-# PLUGINS CONFIG
+# PLUGINS 
 # ***************************
 
 # Directory where plugins are located.
@@ -84,3 +84,9 @@ plugins: _site_build/_plugins
 
 # String prefixed to the meta description of the category page. Defaults to Category:
 #category_meta_description_prefix:
+
+# ***************************
+# RAKE TASKS
+# ***************************
+# The number of test posts that will be generated by the task test_posts:create
+num_test_posts: 50
diff --git a/lib/random.rb b/lib/random.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9204138
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/random.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+module TestPosts
+  module Random
+    APPLICATIONS = ['Apache 2', 'MySQL', 'Sqlite', 'Magento']
+
+    DISTROS = ['Ubuntu', 'Fedora', 'Kubuntu', 'Mythbuntu', 'SUSE Linux', 'Debian']
+
+    FRAMEWORKS = ['Ruby on Rails', 'CakePHP', 'Wordpress', 'Sinatra', 'Drupal']
+
+    LANGUAGES = ['Actionscript', 'Ada', 'Assembly', 'C', 'C#', 'C++', 'Cobol', 'ColdFusion', 'D', 'Delphi', 'Erlang', 'Forth', 'Fortran', 'Haskell', 'Java', 'JavaScript', 'Lisp', 'Lua', 'OCaml', 'Objective C', 'PHP', 'Pascal', 'Perl', 'Python', 'Rexx', 'Ruby', 'SQL', 'Scala', 'Scheme', 'Shell', 'Smalltalk', 'Tcl', 'Visual Basic']
+
+    TITLES = [
+      [['Getting started with', 'A tutorial on', 'Why I like', "Why I don't like", 'Developing applications with'], LANGUAGES + FRAMEWORKS],
+      [['Getting started with', 'How to install', 'How to upgrade'], DISTROS + APPLICATIONS + FRAMEWORKS],
+      [['Developing a plugin for'], FRAMEWORKS]
+    ]
+  
+    def self.generate
+      topics, subjects = TITLES[rand(TITLES.size)]
+      topic = topics[rand(topics.size)] 
+      subject = subjects[rand(subjects.size)]
+      [date, topic + ' ' + subject, subject]
+    end
+
+  private
+    def self.date
+      jdFrom = Date.today.prev_year.jd
+      jdTo = Date.today.jd
+      Date.jd(rand((jdTo + 1) - jdFrom) + jdFrom)
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/templates/post.markdown b/lib/templates/post.markdown
index 0c14cbd..5bd0de9 100644
--- a/templates/post.markdown
+++ b/lib/templates/post.markdown
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
 layout: post
 title: :title
-author: 
-description:
-categories:
+author: :author
+description: :description
+categories: :categories
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