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Obfuscating data in Rails applications for screenshots and demonstrations

Henning Koch
March 30, 2014Software engineer at makandra GmbH

I recently had a need to demonstrate a data-heavy application to potential customers. Demonstrating the application with bogus numbers is one thing, but everything looks much more realistic when I’m using real data. I can’t reveal any real information, though, so I needed a quick way to obfuscate real names. Faker to the rescue!

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2014-03-30 09:13)