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-gener

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-in-ruby-665.html 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.