I know this is an old question but for anyone who might come across this, here’s another approach that you can use. >>> from factory.faker import faker >>> FAKE = faker.Faker() >>> FAKE.name() ‘Scott Rodriguez’ >>> FAKE.address() ‘PSC 5061, Box 1673\nAPO AP 53007’ >>>
You need to pass a block if you want the values re-evaluated for each instance created. Instead of email Faker::Internet.email try… email { Faker::Internet.email }
It seems Marak, the primary maintainer for Faker, has deliberately pulled Faker’s source code and history from their GitHub repository and published a non-functional package in its place. For context, Marak has become known in recent history for some rather controversial comments regarding the late Aaron Swartz (whom they reference in Faker’s updated README) & … Read more
Faker offers a couple of methods that let you replace placeholders in a given string with random characters: lexify – takes given string and replaces ? with random letters asciify – takes given string and replaces * with random ascii characters numerify – takes given string and replaces # with random digits bothify – combines … Read more
You can use attach() or sync() method on a many-to-many relationship. There are multiple ways you can approach this. Here one of them: // Populate roles factory(App\Role::class, 20)->create(); // Populate users factory(App\User::class, 50)->create(); // Get all the roles attaching up to 3 random roles to each user $roles = App\Role::all(); // Populate the pivot table … Read more
You need to give an object to the function: faker.datatype.number({ ‘min’: 10, ‘max’: 50 }); So if you just pass a number, it will set it as the max value. The min value is 0 by default. This is the implementation of the number function : this.number = function (options) { if (typeof options === … Read more