Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.
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It mostly works, but produces warnings about the tap method being deprecated. The rubyforge gem/project appears abandoned.
I'm now using this fork, which works (v 0.4.2): https://github.com/btelles/faker
See also ffaker:
http://www.railsplugins.org/plugins/607-ffaker
http://rubygems.org/gems/ffaker
http://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker