Faker::Shorthand (for Ruby)

😫 Tied of writing Faker::Name.name over and over again?! Me too. But, you're in luck 😄, there's a app (gem) for that! With Faker::Shorthand, you too can save your shift-key and milliseconds of exta keyboarding...

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'faker-shorthand'

Then execute:

$ bundle install

And last, but not least, add to your preferred test_helper (along with Faker itself):

require 'faker/shorthand'

Instead of Faker::ChuckNorris.fact simply write f.chuck_norris.fact and 💥 you get everything you've ever wanted (...from that Faker module). The mapping is quite simple.

We have support for single and multiword modules and methods!

In case you're worried, we won't lose those all so valuable keyword and method arguments. Just pass those along, and we will too.

Let our Faker methods be your Faker methods.

• "WHAT IF I HATE SHORTHAND?!" No problem. You can use your trusty shift-key to write out all of those capitalized module/class declarations.

• "Hmmm, what about my custom Faker extension?" No problem. It's just shorthand. We don't override any modules. If your version of Faker has it, so do we!

• "I use FactoryBot, can I integrate this glorious shorthand?" Of course - do you think we'd forget about you! No silly human. With one line of code in your test_helper of choice and you have shorthand everywhere!!

Do you want something like this...?

class MyFakerShorthandTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  test "my faker integration" do
    puts f.internet.email
  end
end

Then include Faker::Shorthand in your test_helper:

class ActiveSupport::TestCase
  include Faker::Shorthand::Methods
end

Do you want something this...?

FactoryBot.define do
  factory :user do
    name { f.name.name }
    email { f.internet.email }
  end
end

Add this to your test_helper or rails_helper

class FactoryBot::SyntaxRunner
  include Faker::Shorthand::Methods
end

Shorten the shorthand with a single line of configuration, f.name.name will become f.name, and f.name.first_name to become f.name.first.

Who loves combining strings anyways?! Not us at the Institute of Faker::Shorthand. With a touch of configuration, we can make all of that go away. (This may be a horrible idea. It's not entirely clear at this point.)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/faker_shorthand. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the FakerShorthand project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.