faker-ruby / faker

A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
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Deprecate Generators with External Calls #2852

Closed stefannibrasil closed 1 year ago

stefannibrasil commented 1 year ago

[this issue will be assigned to participants of the RubyConf2023 Hack Day]

Some generators pull data from external services. We would like to move away from depending on external services.

As part of this task:

Here's an example of how to deprecate a generator:

vveleva commented 1 year ago

Currently working on this one!

raysapida commented 1 year ago

I saw two other generators, Placeholdit and Avatar, that used URLs but it doesn't look like they were calling the service

stefannibrasil commented 1 year ago

Thank you @raysapida for working on this! Now we know for sure we are not relying on any external services.