Obfuscating data in Rails applications for screenshots and demonstrations

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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!

Henning Koch
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2014-03-30 07:13)