faker-ruby / faker

A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
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Allow for random gender #305

Closed robbyoconnor closed 9 years ago

robbyoconnor commented 9 years ago

Allow for a random Gender...how is this not a feature?!?!

kkirsche commented 9 years ago

Do you mean gender or sex?

Sex refers to biology of a person and means configuration of chromosomes and reproductive organs while gender means personal sense of who you are (e.g. man, woman, transgender)

If you mean biologic sex you would have:

If you mean gender you would need to go with the full spectrum as facebook had to do when they implemented full support of genders. These include, but aren't limited to:

robbyoconnor commented 9 years ago

It doesn't matter really but you hit. diaspora does it as a freetext field -- so this is possible...

kkirsche commented 9 years ago

Didn't follow what was meant after "hit", sorry. Could you reword that?

robbyoconnor commented 9 years ago

Nevermind