Documentation of API divergence from faker?

[hurtstotouchfire]

Is there any documentation of the ffaker API that indicates divergence from the faker API? This would be really useful for people who are switching. I'm going with the "find and replace 'Faker' with 'FFaker' and then fix broken specs" approach, but it's hard to evaluate the scope of work this way. We have many applications that use Faker.

[hurtstotouchfire]

For instance, Faker has a whole Number library that seems to be missing here in favor of more semantic number purposes distributed throughout other areas. Would you guys be opposed to adding a Number library?

[sshaw]

The README says:

ffaker is a fork of faker, and was initially written in an effort to speed up a slow spec suite

So is ffaker faster than faker? If so adding benchmarks would be great.

A decrease test suite runtime can be a good reason to switch.

[Volosh1n]

@sshaw it's added in scripts/benchmark.rb 🚀

[sshaw]

Hurmmm, for Name that appears to be a significant difference!