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Build Robust & Production Quality Applications - Lesson 2: Generate Fake Data with Faker

28 Feb 2015

Use Faker to Generate Fake Data

Creating fake data when your model has uniqueness validations will throw errors if your data is not unique.

Fabricator(:todo) do
  name { "cooking" }
  user
end
Fabricator(:user) do
  email { "joe@example.com"} #This will throw an error eventually if email record already exists.
end

Examples

Creating a category:

Fabricator(:category) do
  name { Faker::Name.name }
end

Creating a video:

Fabricator(:video) do
  title { Faker::Lorem.words(5).join(" ") }
  description { Faker::Lorem.paragraph(2) }
end

Creating an invitation:

Fabricator(:invitation) do
  recipient_name { Faker::Name.name }
  recipient_email { Faker::Internet.email }
  message { Faker::Lorem.paragraphs(2).join(" ") }
end

Read more: Faker Docs

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