"Feed The Zombies" is a terminal application I built using Ruby, supported by some interesting gems, 2 of which require an API key to connect with. Its not very smart, or very flash, but it does beat the old "Lorem Ipsum" generated text for building webpages with!

"News API is a simple and easy-to-use API that returns JSON metadata for headlines and articles live all over the web right now." register here

"Deep AI Text Generation API. This transformer-based language model, based on the GPT-2 model by OpenAI, intakes a sentence or partial sentence and predicts subsequent text from that input." register here

Clone this directory, and then open a terminal to the folder you have just cloned into.

./build.sh

Type the above into your terminal and hit enter to install.

When re-installing this project, I ran into this error:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rest-client:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
  current directory: /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/gems/unf_ext-0.0.7.6/ext/unf_ext/usr/bin/ruby2.5 -r ./siteconf20191220-12110-1w674vc.rb extconf.rb
  mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

 extconf failed, exit code 1

 Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/gems/unf_ext-0.0.7.6 for inspection.
 Results logged to /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.5.0/unf_ext-0.0.7.6/gem_make.out

After a Google search, I found multiple articles advising that installing ruby-dev could solve this. I installed it, and it fixed it. To do that, run apt-get install ruby-dev (might need sudo depending on your permissions).

If you run into issues, please let me know so I can fix/document them.

In the same terminal above, type:

ruby FTZ.rb

It pretty much guides you through all the steps from there. Enjoy!

To test that the connection to the AI text generator is live, users can copy paste the below script into their terminal:

curl \
    -F 'text=Random text of randomness' \
    -H 'api-key:[insert your api key]' \
    https://api.deepai.org/api/text-generator