I love faker! It pisses me off a bit that the library is named faker but the package is fake-factory. It trips me up all the time.
I use it with factory_boy (http://factoryboy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) to generate test fixtures that seem to make logical sense. Usernames are real names, birthdays are real dates, etc.
I think it helps with experimentation when you're using the REPL and also makes bugs stand out a bit more easily. Very neat for demoing purposes too.
Perhaps my favourite is faker.bs() which always gets a giggle when doing live demos.
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.
I use it with factory_boy (http://factoryboy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) to generate test fixtures that seem to make logical sense. Usernames are real names, birthdays are real dates, etc.
I think it helps with experimentation when you're using the REPL and also makes bugs stand out a bit more easily. Very neat for demoing purposes too.
Perhaps my favourite is faker.bs() which always gets a giggle when doing live demos.