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mpron on Jan 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Faker is a Python package that generates fake data...

It's probably fake-factory to prevent confusion with the Ruby gem that's been around for more than 6 years http://www.rubyinside.com/faker-quick-fake-data-generation-i...

It's a standard gem in the community and it's used for generating various types of seed database data. Don't know if does the exact same things that the Python faker does.

joke2k on Jan 22, 2014 [–]

I used fake-factory because faker was already busy on pipy. Initially I asked the author to leave the name, but the response was negative.

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