[LRUG] Ruby random cool word generator

[Abhishek Parolkar]

Good stuff, You mean only US names ;-)
Hmmmmm.. I wish there would have been a generic international names
directory!


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Paul Golds <paul.golds at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Abhishek Parolkar
> <abhishek.parolkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Dan Webb <dan at danwebb.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think maybe another site for the word source might be better :)
> >
> > Ya I guess, Best would be scrapping from
> > http://www.babynames.com/Names/Alpha/index.php?let=A&g=&o=45
>
> If you're just after real names then the lists at
> http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html should be fine.
>
> I've built (non-Ruby)  random name generators using these in past and
> they're great, all of the names comes with a frequency indicator
> meaing you can use these as ranges for your randomisation and tweak it
> to produce names which are less mundane than you'd expect using them
> at the listed frequency but more likely than you'd get just picking a
> firstname and surname with no bias.  Tends to be okay at producing
> 'interesting but not silly' names.
>
> Paul Golds
>
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