Let’s Faker Together: a Ruby library for generating fake data | Open Source Thursdays
A live introduction to the Faker's gem architecture and how to contribute to Open Source Ruby Gems with Vitor Oliveira.
Here is what you'll learn:
How to contribute to Open Source Ruby projects
How the faker-ruby gem works
Live coding with the core maintainers of faker-ruby
About our Guest
Vitor Oliveira is a second-time Edtech entrepreneur and technical founder, with relevant experience in software engineering and software engineering management roles. Vitor is building Napice as a School and Community for Software Engineering Leaders. In his spare time, he is a core open source maintainer of the Faker Ruby and Faker Elixir libraries.
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Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:07:11 Faker Ruby gem - how does it work?
00:09:50 How Faker generates data
00:14:04 How to contribute to open source and Faker
00:22:12 Easy ways to contribute to Open Source
00:26:42 Picking Issues, Opening new Pull Requests, and Code Reviews
00:33:34 How to release a new gem version on RubyGems
00:49:25 Q&A
00:57:13 Final thoughts