How To Write A Name Generator (In Ruby)

[askorkin]

http://www.skorks.com/2009/07/how-to-write-a-name-generator-in-ruby/

[barrkel]

I'm starting to get the impression that every budding programmer writes a Markov chain-based name or text generator at least once in their lives. It's the trick that never gets old.

Sigh.

[jrockway → barrkel]

It's like anything else that's trivial to implement but produces mildly-interesting results. (Kind of like message queues, the other fad as of late.)

[jrockway]

"DataHandler". Now there's a descriptive name. Couple it with a "ThingDoer" and you will have a truly generic framework!