---
title: Faker gem - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 13
slug: faker-gem-creatorplatform-xyz-part-13
published_at: 2022-09-19 12:51:00 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:10 +0000
summary: 
description: In this episode, we install the Faker gem, a tool for generating fake data in development and test mode.   00:00 Introduction 00:16 Install the Faker gem 00:29 Explore Faker's methods in the Rails console 01:47 Conclusion  Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p  Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/  Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev  #rubyonrails #ruby #rails
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views: 397
author: CJ Avilla
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---

# Faker gem - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 13

*Published: September 19, 2022*
*Views: 397*

## Watch

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## Description

In this episode, we install the Faker gem, a tool for generating fake data in development and test mode. 

00:00 Introduction
00:16 Install the Faker gem
00:29 Explore Faker's methods in the Rails console
01:47 Conclusion

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p 
Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ 
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev

#rubyonrails #ruby #rails

## Transcript

what's up welcome back in this episode we're going to install the faker gem which is a ruby library for generating a bunch of fake data it's super handy for generating test data and just generally fake data so we're gonna say bundle add faker and we're gonna put this in the development group and once we have faker installed all right so let's jump into the rails console and play around so we're gonna say rails console or rails c now we can say faker colon colon and then tab through all of these a really common one is to use faker colon colon internet and there's a whole bunch of methods on internet that will generate fake data so we could say give me a safe email and that will generate an email address that's safe to use we can do that a bunch of different times and that will generate fake email addresses that's pretty cool we can also do faker company dot and then there's like you can just grab a simple name or you can do funny things like polish register of national economy so we can do a whole bunch of stuff with faker it's a really fun gem and it's really useful if you're in development and you want to sort of pre-populate forms or you want to pre-populate data that looks real and you can also use it inside of tests so that your tests are going to be behaved differently based on all of the random data that faker might generate for you that is pretty realistic so there's some really fun ones in here we can do like faker there's a chuck norris thing that we can say give us a chuck norris fact or you can even say stuff like faker.stripe dot i don't know valid card that'll give you back a valid credit card so that you can test out your stripe integration so faker is a really powerful gem and uh yeah i'm excited to see how you use this in your application we're going to be using this throughout the rest of our series where we're building out a platform for creators thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one [Music]

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