require 'ffaker'
Faker::Name.name => "Christophe Bartell"
Faker::Internet.email => "[email protected]"faker and ffaker APIs are mostly the same, although the API on ffaker keeps growing with its users additions. In general, the only difference is that you need to:
gem install ffaker
and then
require 'ffaker'
instead of "faker" with only one f.
ffaker was initially written in an effort to speed up a slow spec suite. Bear in mind, if your spec suite is slow, chances are the generation of random data will not account for much of the run time.
Since then, the original faker gem has become faster. Nevertheless, ffaker is still about 20x faster than faker.
N = 10_000
Benchmark.bm do |rep|
rep.report("generating #{ N } names") do
N.times do
Faker::Name.name
end
end
endruby 1.8.7`
generating 10000 names (faker 0.9.5) 1.500000 0.000000 1.500000 ( 1.506865)
generating 10000 names (ffaker 1.5.0) 0.070000 0.000000 0.070000 ( 0.067526)
ruby 1.9.2p180
generating 10000 names (faker 0.9.5) 1.030000 0.020000 1.050000 ( 1.046116)
generating 10000 names (ffaker 1.7.0) 0.040000 0.000000 0.040000 ( 0.045917)
A lot of people has contributed to ffaker. Check this list.
- Even though the API is pretty simple, better rdoc documentation would not hurt.
- Put all modules under its respective language (E.G. EducationUS instead of just Education)
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright (c) 2013 Emmanuel Oga. See LICENSE for details. Copyright (c) 2007 Benjamin Curtis