Faker::Cli

This tool uses Faker to generate a json array of json objects with special fields and faked values.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'faker-cli'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install faker-cli

Usage

faker-cli [-n NUM-ENTRIES] DEF1 DEF2 ... DEFN

The value for -n defaults to 10. The above command will create -n entries with fields defined by DEF1 to DEFN.

DEF

A DEF has the form

<name>:<Faker-Module>.<Faker-Method>

or

<name>:<Faker-Module>.<Faker-Method>(param1, param2)

• name is the name of the objects key
• Faker-Module is the name of the Faker module (e.g. Lorem)
• Faker-Method is the method of that module (e.g. word)

The string after the : is basically "applied" to the Faker module. So id:Number.positive would actually call Faker::Number.positive() to generate an id-field for one entry.

Other DEFs:

"id:Number.positive(5, 100)"
"text:Lorem.words(5)"
"created_at:Date.forward"

Usage Examples

faker-cli 50 "id:Number.positive"\
  "filename:Lorem.words(2)"\
  "filesize:Number.between(150, 700)"\
  "created_at:Date.backward"\
  "modified_at:Date.backward"\
  "directory_id:Number.positive(2, 6)"

Will output a json array of 50 json objects that look like:

{
    "id": 1136,
    "filename": "rem necessitatibus",
    "filesize": 300,
    "directory_id": 4,
    "created_at": "2013-09-25",
    "modified_at": "2014-07-14"
}

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/faker-cli/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request