[mpron]

It's probably fake-factory to prevent confusion with the Ruby gem that's been around for more than 6 years http://www.rubyinside.com/faker-quick-fake-data-generation-i...

It's a standard gem in the community and it's used for generating various types of seed database data. Don't know if does the exact same things that the Python faker does.

[joke2k]

I used fake-factory because faker was already busy on pipy. Initially I asked the author to leave the name, but the response was negative.