I do not comprehend anything concerning RDoc, for the time. This part of the Rubyverse did never interest me.

The current issue must be discussed in a Ruby-centric community. As there is still a usenet-group I will try to get more information there.

Edit: Did it. Will report back. Over.

This is just an idea a friend and I came up with a long time ago. Basically out of boredom, I wrote a very simple car game. It was a not very good one, and would look terrible today. Back then, the computer memory was very limited. So, instead of constructing roads, with curves and traffic, everything was completely random. Should the road go left or right, and how much, and other cars appear - all random.

The pseudo random generators have a seed function. If you give it a number, the next random numbers will always be the same. That meant, we got 2^32 different tracks, just by passing a different seed number to the random generator.

And by trying different numbers, we saw some was easy and some was difficult. After a while, we just made 3 lists of numbers - easy, medium and hard.

I'm not sure if you can use the same idea here. Instead of keeping a list of funny/boring proverbs, keep a list of seed numbers for the random generator.

... in an attempt to avoid boring proverbs being generated way too often. I will make some experiments in that direction. Thanks for the idea.

Between chasing tree fungi, mixing mortar and weeding, the option parser is becoming functional and internationalization has been added.

Ignore. The group is dead.

Here is an updated version of the gem „Sprichwoerter”:
https://rubygems.org/gems/Sprichwoerter
Alternatively:
I had not been able to communicate to rubygems.org for a while, but something has changed between June and now, and my account appears to work.

This release uses an option-parser for the first time.

Adding original proverbs is now done interactively, a user is prompted for each of the details, i.e. language, singular or plural, beginning and ending of the proverb. You can thus add English proverbs to the list of English proverbs and German proverbs to the list of German proverbs irrespective of the way that you call the program (either “proverbs” or „Sprichwoerter”). Just use the parameter --add (or --neu in German locale).

Apart from that, the randomness of generated “proverbs” is improved. It should be very rare now that the same phrase is generated twice in a row.

Here is the usage-message:
The documentation is updated and included in the Gem.

I have not yet changed the program-behavior upon “qualifying” a proverb, nor will the respective proverbs be handled in any special way, apart from their being added to the list of “favorites”.

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