I just had the need to generate some test user data and came across Faker. It’s a small Ruby library and it’s perfect. It generates fake names, email addresses, domain names and more. Light and easy to use.
irb(main):002:0> require 'faker'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> Faker::Name.name
=> "Fredy Bins III"
irb(main):004:0> Faker::Name.name
=> "Chester Bashirian"
irb(main):005:0> Faker::Internet.email
=> "cara@kuhlman.name"
irb(main):006:0> Faker::Internet.free_email
=> "luis@hotmail.com"
irb(main):007:0> Faker::Internet.domain_name
=> "grady.ca"
irb(main):008:0> Faker::Internet.user_name
=> "meghan"
irb(main):009:0> Faker::Internet.user_name
=> "cullen"
Nice.