more progress towards live unread and new counts, unread message implemented, still to implement delete messages

script/user_simulator.rb

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+# used during local testing, simulates a user active on the site.
+#
+# by default 1 new topic every 30 sec, 1 reply to last topic every 30 secs
+
+require 'optparse'
+require 'gabbler'
+
+user_id = nil
+
+def sentence
+  @gabbler ||= Gabbler.new.tap do |gabbler|
+    story = File.read(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/alice.txt")
+    gabbler.learn(story)
+  end
+
+  sentence = ""
+  until sentence.length > 800 do
+    sentence << @gabbler.sentence
+    sentence << "\n"
+  end
+  sentence
+end
+
+OptionParser.new do |opts|
+  opts.banner = "Usage: ruby user_simulator.rb [options]"
+  opts.on("-u", "--user NUMBER", "user id") do |u|
+    user_id = u.to_i
+  end
+end.parse!
+
+unless user_id
+  puts "user must be specified"
+  exit
+end
+
+require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment")
+
+unless Rails.env.development?
+  puts "Bad idea to run a script that inserts random posts in any non development environment"
+  exit
+end
+
+
+user = User.find(user_id)
+last_topics = Topic.order('id desc').limit(10).pluck(:id)
+
+puts "Simulating activity for user id #{user.id}: #{user.name}"
+
+
+while true
+  # puts "Creating a random topi"
+
+  # category = Category.where(secure: false).order('random()').first
+  # PostCreator.create(user, raw: sentence, title: sentence[0..50].strip, category:  category.name)
+
+  puts "creating random reply"
+  PostCreator.create(user, raw: sentence, topic_id: last_topics.sample)
+
+  sleep 3
+end