There are many times, where customers want to see how their projects are working, how they are progressing and faker can be a solution to give them what they want, it is also essential for testing purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few weeks ago, a client asked me to build a peer to peer platform, once everything was up and running, but something was missing, not least from the users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a developer I couldn’t make sure I could find a myriad of real ones in a day. So instead of spending hours creating fake accounts or populating the database directly, I decided to create one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faker appeared to me, as the solution, 20min, and 2 scripts later the site had its real fake users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faker is a gem\u00a0that generates fake data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It comes in very handy for having real-looking test data, and having your database populated with more than one or two records while you’re doing development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is my script to populate my user, category and request table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enjoy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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