Using Faker gem on Rails 3.2.13 and ruby 1.9.3p545

[Megan Byrne]

Hello all,

So let me first state for the record that I am very new to Rails Development and programming in general, so the answer to this may be fairly obvious.  I am currently working on some legacy code as a contractor and am running into quite a few problems with versions of gems, since prior to now I have only used Rails 4 and Ruby 2.

Here's the problem:

I'm trying to write a rake task that would be ideal to incorporate the Faker gem with.  I've just specified " gem 'faker' " in the gem file and ran Bundle install.  Also, started writing the rake task which includes "require 'faker' ".  But now that I try to run the rials server, I get an error message in terminal that starts out like this:

/Users/megaputer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p545/gems/faker-1.4.1/lib/faker.rb:10:in `<top (required)>': undefined method `enforce_available_locales=' for I18n:Module (NoMethodError)

I'm really not sure how to proceed, I suspect that I need to specify a specific version of Faker to work with Rails 3.2.13 and Ruby 1.9.3p545, but I haven't been able to find much on my own searching online.

Please Help!

Thanks in advance,

Megan

[Conrad Taylor]

Megan, did you get this issue resolved?  If not, are you using the following for development and/or test.  If this is the case, I would recommend using the following:

http://rubygems.org/gems/ffaker

You'll want to add it to your development group within your Gemfile.  Next, 'bundle install'.  So, can you show the rake file?

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[Benjamin Curtis]

The problem is most likely an old version of the i18n gem.  Try upgrading that.

[Conrad Taylor]

Benjamin, an outdated i18n gem could very well be the cause of the issue.

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[Conrad Taylor]

Megan, if you're simply needing to seed a local development database, you can simply use seeds.rb file.  Next, here's a sample rake file:

namespace :db do
  desc "Create user records in the current database."

  task :fake_users => :environment do
    require 'faker'

    @countries = ["United States", "Canada", "United Kingdom", "Germany", "Mexico"]
    @genders = ["Male","Female"]
    @privacy = ["members", "public"]
    
    def random_date(params={})
      years_back = params[:year_range] || 5
      latest_year  = params [:year_latest] || 0
      year = (rand * (years_back)).ceil + (Time.now.year - latest_year - years_back)
      month = (rand * 12).ceil
      day = (rand * 31).ceil
      date = Time.now
      series = [date]
      if params[:series]
        params[:series].each do |some_time_after|
          series << series.last + (rand * some_time_after).ceil
        end
        return series
      end
      date
    end
    
    100.times do
        User.create!(
        :first_name => Faker::Name.first_name,
        :last_name => Faker::Name.last_name,
        :birthdate => random_date(:year_range => 60, :year_latest => 22),
        :created_at => random_date(:year_range => 4, :year_latest => 0),
        :city => Faker::Lorem.words(1).to_s.capitalize,
        :state => Faker::Address.us_state(),
        :country => @countries.rand.to_s,
        :password => "foobar",
        :password_confirmation => "foobar",
        :accepts_terms_and_conditions => true,
        :gender => @genders.rand.to_s,
        :email => Faker::Internet.email
      )
    end
  end
end

I suspect that your issue was that Rails environment wasn't being properly loaded.  In any case, I wish that the above example helps.

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On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Megan Byrne <megan....@gmail.com> wrote:

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