Faker is producing duplicate data when used in factory_girl

Question

I\'m trying to populate some fake data into a factory using the Faker gem:

Factory.define :user do |user|
  user.first_name Faker::Name::first_name
  user.la         


        

Answer 1

Note that Faker may still be providing duplicate data due to the limited amount of fake data available.

For simple testing purposes and to get by uniqueness validations, I've used the following:

sequence(:first_name) {|n| Faker::Name::first_name + " (#{n})"}
sequence(:last_name) {|n| Faker::Name::last_name + " (#{n})"}