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It'd be really great if FakerElixir had a way to generate unique data. This is really useful when certain fields in your mock object require uniqueness to be valid. Basically, if you have this requirement, your test will randomly fail based on whether the data generated for that unique field was actually unique.

Not really sure if it is relevant to this library, since it's more related to mock-ups than generating data.

I forgot to add the sentences/0 method, right now it doesn't respect the guide lines of the generator since we have characters/0 and words/0.

I will fix it in the next release: 0.11.2.

I was trying to run my tests with mix test and it outputs this strange error

** (Mix) Could not start application faker_elixir_octopus: could not find application file: faker_elixir_octopus.app

I suspect something went wrong with Faker Elixir, do you have any lead on the matter ?

Thanks for this great package. One side note, you don't need to add :faker_elixir_octopus to your application if you're only going to use it in seeds or tests.

Example

# seeds.exs
Application.start(:faker_elixir_octopus)

or

# test_helper.exs
Application.start(:faker_elixir_octopus)

https://hex.pm/packages/faker and this package have pretty much the same propose. Speaking from my experiences in another ecosystem like Node and Ruby, it's really painful when you have that many "duplicate in term of propose of the package" We hurts ourself doing these practices.

Anyway, because this is a long conversation.

As today https://hex.pm/packages/faker is the most popular and used on hex so I would love to this package integrate with faker https://github.com/igas/faker if there is not problem with @GesJeremie and @igas, for the good of the whole community it's better to join forces, resource and time rather than split it up. So both of you don't have to deal with releases, updates, feedbacks, PRs and so on by your own.

I would @igas to see if you can get some work together on what @GesJeremie have and you have on faker 🙏

I love diversity as much you do but when there is big fundamental differences, and even that, I would argue that most of the time is actually separate abstractions and create new architecture rather than just how it's coded

Please @GesJeremie work with @igas on this, and my apologies if I don't understand the differences between both packages because I am talking as an user from hex

Hi,

Very good library. I wanted to use FakerElixir.Date for my project and realized there's no distinction between Time, Date and DateTime ; maybe you could improve this part ?

Time would be a real time
Date would be a strict date
DateTime would be a date with a time

Right now there's only a Date and sounds more like a DateTime to me.