evilscott / bard_bot

Markov bot with Shakespeare character corpora

Bard Bot -- Shakespearean Markov

Installation:

$ gem install bard_bot

Usage:

require 'bard_bot'
BardBot.config do |config|
  c.character = :lear
  c.prefix = 3
end
BardBot.generate_sentence

Available Configuration:

• :character (default :hamlet) - Choose character corpus. Use BardBot.characters to see available. :random is also a supported option.
• :prefix (default 2) - Markov prefix to use when generating sentences. Lower prefixes will give more chaotic output and higher prefixes will give output closer to corpus material.
• :max_length (default 100) - Maximum length in words for a generated sentence. Sentences will terminates on a valid punctuation or the maximum length, whichever is shorter.
• :character_dir (default :default) - Directory for corpus. Another directory besides the default can be specified here to support input.