https://github.com/adamcooke/fake-person

Create some fake personalities
https://github.com/adamcooke/fake-person

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Create some fake personalities

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/adamcooke/fake-person
• Owner: adamcooke
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-10-16T19:46:05.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-10-19T11:33:55.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-01T16:06:43.283Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 163 KB
• Stars: 116
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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• awesome-ruby - Fake Person - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK. (Testing)
• awesome-ruby - Fake Person - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK. (Testing)
• awesome-ruby - Fake Person - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK. (Testing)

README

        
# Fake Person

This is a gem which will generate a "person" object for a completely make up human being. The primary reason for creating this is gem is for the Rails Rumble competition where we need to be able to generate fake personalities to allow judges to use our application.

## Installation

Just put the following in your Gemfile and run `bundle`.

```ruby

gem "fake_person", "~> 1.0"

```

## Usage

```ruby

person = FakePerson.new

# Names

person.first_name                 #=> "Alexander"

person.middle_name                #=> "James"

person.last_name                  #=> "Smith"

person.name                       #=> "Alexander Smith"

person.name(:full)                #=> "Alexander James Smith"

person.initials                   #=> "AJS"

# Titles

person.title                      #=> "Mr"

person.name(:formal)              #=> "Mr Smith"

person.name(:formal_with_first)   #=> "Mr Alexander Smith"

# Gender

person.gender                     #=> :male (or :female)

# Date of birth

person.date_of_birth              #=> #

person.age                        #=> 37

# Usernames

person.username                   #=> "alexsmith" (various styles exist)

# E-Mail Addresses

person.email_address              #=> "[email protected]"

person.free_email_address         #=> "[email protected]" (or various other free providers)

# Activities

person.favorite_activity         #=> "Figure skating"

# Foods

person.favorite_food             #=> "Pizza"

# Likes/Dislikes

person.likes(3)                   #=> ['Driving', 'Fish fingers', 'Jogging']

person.dislikes(2)                #=> ['Kitesurfing', 'Coffee']

# Colour

person.favorite_color             #=> "Purple"

# Avatars

person.avatar_url                 #=> "https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/fakepeople/male/256/57.png"

```

## Why not Faker?

Faker is great and everything but the data it generates can be a little strange. This library uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK.