Generate Array of Numbers that fit to a Probability Distribution in Ruby?

Question

Say I have 100 records, and I want to mock out the created_at date so it fits on some curve. Is there a library to do that, or what formula could I use? I thi

Answer 1

Another option is the Distribution gem under SciRuby. You can generate normal numbers by:

require 'distribution'

rng = Distribution::Normal.rng
random_numbers = Array.new(100).map { rng.call }

There are RNGs for various other distributions as well.