I wasn't happy with the Faker gem's…

I wasn't happy with the Faker gem's Lorem and Markdown modules, so—for anyone who might need it—I wrote a silly function to generate more realistically sized paragraphs with Markdown bits gist.github.com/searls/2859ad7e8941872edb9561eb965b7c76

I was disappointed with the faker gem's Markdown and Lorem modules, so I wrote a custom thing that produced realistic-length paragraphs with just enough markdown junk sprinkled in to know that it's rendering correctly in my app · GitHub

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