Generating unique names and emails with faker.

[Nitish Upreti]

I am using 'faker' in my spec file to override factory attributes for attributes like email ids and names. However many a times validations fail as faker returns the same string twice. How to fix this?

[Martin Streicher]

Faker repeats eventually. 

My suggestion is to use a UUID gem to add a unique ID to each email. Create a method that returns something like...

"email#{UUID.uuid}@example.com"

... where UUID.uuid returns some globally unique ID. 

On Apr 1, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Nitish Upreti wrote:

I am using 'faker' in my spec file to override factory attributes for attributes like email ids and names. However many a times validations fail as faker returns the same string twice. How to fix this?

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[Jesse Cooke]

You can also add a sequence to the end of the name.

[Les Nightingill]

In your factories, the faker call needs to be in braces {}. This way it's called each time the Factory is called iso at initialization.

FatctoryGirl.define :person do 

   name { Faker::Name.lastName }

end

does that do the trick?

Les

On Apr 1, 2013, at 3:54 AM, Nitish Upreti wrote:

I am using 'faker' in my spec file to override factory attributes for attributes like email ids and names. However many a times validations fail as faker returns the same string twice. How to fix this?

[Jesse Cooke]

Even with the method call I've seen duplicates (not too often) so that's where the sequence comes in handy.