A Problem: It's harder than absolutely easy to make meaningful, simple, data for testing and development.

A Solution: A fake data generator that provides not only a host of basics and a rememberable syntax, but a customizable library to boot.

Welcome to Forgery, an excellent solution to a problem so hard you didn't know it was there.

You'll want to read individual Forgery categories for more information, but these are the basics:

Forgery(:basic).password
  #=> "b6qZTQEH"

Forgery(:internet).email_address
  #=> "[email protected]"

Forgery(:monetary).money
  #=> "1.58"

Forgery(:lorem_ipsum).words(10)
  #=> "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam egestas."

Forgery(:monetary).formatted_money :min => 100, :max => 1000
  #=> "$923.36"

And many many more!

Alternatively you can write it like this:

Forgery::Basic.hex_color
Forgery::Name.full_name
Forgery::Personal.shirt_size

In addition, you can always write your own dictionaries and formats, overriding the ones in the gem. Fully explained here.

Like any gem, you can install Forgery two ways depending on it's use.

For normal Ruby development, you need simply use:

$ gem install forgery

This will add it to your gem library, just like any normal gem. You can then use it like any normal gem library. See examples for more.

Rails 3.x

If you're using Rails 3.x you need to do a few extra things (that are probably rote). First step is to add it to your Rails.root/Gemfile, we also suggest specifying the latest version (found on rubygems):

gem 'forgery', '0.6.0'

Then you'll need to run bundle install to install and lock in your new gem. Next you'll want to run the special Rails 3 generator:

$ [bundle exec] rails generate forgery

Rails 2.x

For Rails 2.x you'll need to do something a little different, by first editing your Rails.root/config/environment.rb and adding this to the configuration block:

config.gem 'forgery'

Then you'll need to run this in your command line:

$ script/generate forgery

Generators

This Rails generators will make these directories in your Rails.root directory:

• Rails.root/lib/forgery
• Rails.root/lib/forgery/dictionaries
• Rails.root/lib/forgery/extensions
• Rails.root/lib/forgery/forgeries
• Rails.root/lib/forgery/formats

You can then use these directories to write your own dictionaries, class extensions, forgeries, and formats.

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Forgery('basic').boolean | true (TrueClass) Forgery('basic').color | Red Forgery('basic').encrypt | fc0d835dd4e4df144a33a6a346298b0f23dcd14a Forgery('basic').frequency | Never Forgery('basic').hex_color | #e1d82a Forgery('basic').number | 4 Forgery('basic').password | KcLBHCv6 Forgery('basic').short_hex_color | #c1d Forgery('basic').text | G8gECFfvDs2 | Forgery('credit_card').check_digit(number) | 5 Forgery('credit_card').number | 343682330855371 Forgery('credit_card').type | American Express Forgery('currency').code | XPF Forgery('currency').description | Austria Schillings | Forgery('date').date | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 (Date) Forgery('date').day | 15 Forgery('date').day_of_week | Monday Forgery('date').delta(options) | 3 Forgery('date').month | January Forgery('date').year | 1994 | Forgery('email').address | [email protected] Forgery('email').body | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer ... Forgery('email').subject | Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet... | Forgery('geo').latitude | -8.095096815540515 (Float) Forgery('geo').latitude_degrees | -49 Forgery('geo').latitude_direction | N Forgery('geo').latitude_minutes | 14 Forgery('geo').latitude_seconds | 45 Forgery('geo').longitude | -22.56746406884514 (Float) Forgery('geo').longitude_degrees | 100 Forgery('geo').longitude_direction | W Forgery('geo').longitude_minutes | 47 Forgery('geo').longitude_seconds | 41 | Forgery('internet').cctld | cf Forgery('internet').domain_name | bubbletube.net Forgery('internet').email_address | [email protected] Forgery('internet').email_subject | Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet... Forgery('internet').ip_v4 | 94.120.51.103 Forgery('internet').ip_v6 | c61e:5926:15e6:d225:8eef:fb39:7412:e9d5 Forgery('internet').top_level_domain | com Forgery('internet').user_name | sdixon | Forgery('lorem_ipsum').character | l Forgery('lorem_ipsum').characters | lorem ipsu Forgery('lorem_ipsum').lorem_ipsum_characters | lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').lorem_ipsum_words | ["lorem", "ipsum", "dolor", ...] (Array) Forgery('lorem_ipsum').paragraph | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').paragraphs | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').range_from_quantity(quantity) | 0..4 (Range) Forgery('lorem_ipsum').sentence | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').sentences | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').text | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').title | Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet... Forgery('lorem_ipsum').word | lorem Forgery('lorem_ipsum').words | lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... | Forgery('monetary').formatted_money | $5.49 Forgery('monetary').money | 9.20 (String) | Forgery('name').company_name | Bubbletube Forgery('name').female_first_name | Judy Forgery('name').first_name | Albert Forgery('name').full_name | Evelyn Wallace Forgery('name').industry | Toy & Hobby Stores Forgery('name').job_title | Analyst Programmer Forgery('name').job_title_suffix | III Forgery('name').last_name | Jackson Forgery('name').location | Try-N-Save Forgery('name').male_first_name | Donald Forgery('name').suffix | Sr Forgery('name').title | Mr | Forgery('personal').abbreviated_gender | F Forgery('personal').gender | Female Forgery('personal').language | Bislama Forgery('personal').race | Indonesian Forgery('personal').shirt_size | 2XL | Forgery('russian_tax').account_number | 56335652786612121479 Forgery('russian_tax').bik | 046533860 Forgery('russian_tax').inn | 7366543467 Forgery('russian_tax').legal_inn | 7822838630 Forgery('russian_tax').legal_ogrn | 3483465598635 Forgery('russian_tax').ogrn | 666325227817763 Forgery('russian_tax').person_inn | 451559765443 Forgery('russian_tax').person_ogrn | 195478617554621 | Forgery('time').zone | Amsterdam (String)

This is a work in progress and an open source project, so feel free to contribute. We'll take pull requests via git or suggestions via the issues tab. Any work done on Forgery will get you into the credits list and in our hearts.

Thanks to the authors and contributors:

• Nate Sutton (nate aka fowlduck)
• Brandon Arbini (brandonarbini)
• Josh Nichols (technicalpickles)
• Jeremy Stephens (viking aka crookshanks)
• Darcy Laycock (Sutto)
• Lukas Westermann (lwe)
• Mike Dungan
• Andrew Selder (aselder)
• Thomas Sinclair (anathematic)
• Stafford Brunk (wingrunr21)
• SixArm (SixArm)
• Akira Matsuda (amatsuda)
• Diego Plentz (plentz)
• Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw)
• Todd Mazierski (toddmazierski)

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