Magic Data

Magic Data is a lean and un-opinionated data generator where you provide the generation techniques! Generators can be set as a block or as a static value. Data generation is handled by requesting a specifc key or modifying a passed in hash. Most importantly, Magic Data supports retrieving the most recently generated value of any key!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'magic_data'

Usage

Creating generators with a block

Input keys can be strings or symbols, you decide!

MagicData.set('~username') {rand(36**10).to_s(36) << '.51d281ef@mailosaur.io'}
MagicData.set(:password) {rand(36**10).to_s(36)}

Creating generators with a static value

Input values will be converted to a string for retrieval.

MagicData.set('~existing_username', 'tk8817@test.com')
MagicData.set('~existing_username', FigNewton.existing_password) #example uses Cheezy's FigNewton lib

Invoking block generators

This will return a value generated from the block provided during creation

MagicData.get('~username')
# => ch3jdb68sjhnss21.51d281ef@mailosaur.io

MagicData.get(:password)
# => h4dnsah28s2hs27hd3

Retrieving latest block generated value

Non existent values will return as nil

MagicData.get_latest(:password)
# => h4dnsah28s2hs27hd3

MagicData.get_latest('not_real')
# => nil

Modifying hash with magic_data (return full hash)

input = {user_login: '~username', :user_password => :password, user_phone: '555-555-5555'}
MagicData.process(input)
# => {user_login: 'vb39hsb2s.51d281ef@mailosaur.io', user_password: '9fj4h3hnssoqlks', user_phone: '555-555-5555'}

Modifying hash with magic_data (return only modified data)

input = {user_login: '~username', user_password: '~password', user_phone: '555-555-5555'}
MagicData.process(input, true)
# => {user_login: 'dh2nsh17ahs.51d281ef@mailosaur.io', user_password: 'k4jn60d2ja'}

Invoking static value

This will return the static value set during creation

MagicData.get('~existing_username')
# => tk8817@test.com

Retrieving latest static value

There is not much value in this, but you can do it.

MagicData.get__latest('~existing_username')
# => tk8817@test.com

Development

License

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