faker

What

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. The port was motivated by a need for a bunch of fake data to make good-looking screenshots for Catch the Best. :)

Installing

sudo gem install faker

Usage

Faker::Name.name => “Bob Hope”

Read the docs

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-faker

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

The trunk repository is svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/faker/trunk for anonymous access.

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Benjamin Curtis via the forum

Benjamin Curtis, 5th December 2007
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