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A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 6 stories, 13 comments · first 2013-12-30 · latest 2026-03-20

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  1. …on staging, I was greeted by two fake people sending a half-dozen Chuck Norris facts to each other. https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker/blob/main/lib/locales/en...
    comment by psadauskas · 2026-03-20 · in Chuck Norris has died
  2. …it's a business. Is this using AI? The pricing seems extremely high for what's basically a call to https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker but that makes sense if it has to pay for OpenAI tokens. (who knows though, plenty of B2B deals signed…
    comment by ForHackernews · 2026-01-06 · in Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas
  3. …versions of this for almost any programming language, they're typically used to generate test data. https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker
    comment by aartav · 2022-07-27
  4. …posts/threads in the demo forum. Just by eyeballing a few of them it looks like the Ruby Faker gem https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker . There's direct references to it such as the Stormtrooper line in…
    comment by nickjj · 2022-03-05 · in Thredded Forums – An engine for Ruby on Rails
  5. …(from the previous version's README): faker.js was inspired by and has used data definitions from: https://github.com/stympy/faker/ - Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Benjamin Curtis http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Data-Faker-0.07/ - Copyright…
    comment by bdcravens · 2022-01-09 · in Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
  6. So the script we wrote created real email addresses and user names. The Ruby gem Faker ( https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker ) takes care of that. But yeah you are probably right. 10MB passwords possibly made it too easy for the scammer to…
    comment by beAbU · 2020-08-13 · in Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
  7. And this is the equivalent for Ruby: https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker
    comment by thelibrarian · 2020-05-30 · in Random person name generator
  8. Btw, they have counterparts in the Ruby world: https://github.com/stympy/faker (which states to be a port from Perl) and https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl I use them in a Rails db/seed.rb file to create a new dev db every time I…
    comment by pmontra · 2014-12-17 · in Fake2db – Generate fake but valid data-filled databases
  9. Faker (for ruby here https://github.com/stympy/faker ) originally for perl, available elsewhere also
    comment by kevinkimball · 2014-09-18 · in Fake name generator for social media
  10. Also, for ruby: `gem install faker` [1] 1. https://github.com/stympy/faker
    comment by christiangenco · 2014-01-23 · in Fake Name Generator
  11. Take a look at the Faker Rubygem: http://rubygems.org/gems/faker https://github.com/stympy/faker
    comment by cgore · 2014-01-22 · in Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you
  12. There are also faker libraries for various languages, e.g. the famous https://github.com/stympy/faker , https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker and a little port in Scala (created by me) https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker
    comment by justwrote · 2014-01-21 · in Fake Name Generator
  13. https://github.com/stympy/faker
    comment by dham · 2013-12-30 · in Ask HN: How do you generate fake data?