minitest-rails VS faker

How do we tell minitest/spec which test class to use? The tldr is to use the minitest-rails gem. I highly recommend adding the minitest-rails gem to your project. The gem does a lot to integrate the Rails testing ecosystem with Minitest, particularly spec-style tests. One primary benefit is that it configures specs to use ActiveSupport::TestCase or one of its subclasses as the spec’s test class, depending on what is passed describe.

While we’re at it, let's add a couple of other gems we’ll need for our test environment: factory_bot_rails is a fixtures replacement and generates test model instances. faker is handy for generating fake strings of data to be used in tests. Add those gems to the development and test group of your Gemfile:

Next up, we'll combine a few of the techniques we've reviewed to implement snappy typeahead searching. Before we do that, though, let's generate more sample data. I will use the popular faker gem to do that:

Faker was originally written in Perl and is also available as a library for Ruby, Java, and Python.

Faker

rspec-rails factory_bot_rails faker

Ah, so the data is just a giant .yml file of potential options, that I compiled, and then faker grabs a random one based on that data. There's no "database" or anything akin to that.

It's with the Faker library. I was able to reproduce it by spinning up a new rails up, specifying the faker gem , yours, and running the command gives the same error.

To begin using faker, you need to install the gem, which is simply done by running "gem install faker". After you do that, you should add "gem "faker"" to your gem file to ensure correct usage, otherwise you may get an error. Once thats done you can head over to the seeding file and add require "faker" the page. In the seeding file is where you would start to "fake" your data and we use the faker library to pick out random dummy data. In the seeding, your gonna start implementing the data which should look like this,