Faker.Internet.email does not work

[uri]

iex(1)> Faker.Internet.email
** (UndefinedFunctionError) function :"Elixir.Faker.Name.".first_name/0 is undefined (module :"Elixir.Faker.Name." is not available)
    :"Elixir.Faker.Name.".first_name()
    lib/faker/internet.ex:31: Faker.Internet.user_name/1
    lib/faker/internet.ex:45: Faker.Internet.email/0

[igas]

Hi @uri, you forgot to start app check out https://github.com/igas/faker#usage TL;DR in your iex session you can run Faker.start

[denispeplin]

Not very clear from docs, it will be nice to have an example on a separate line.

[igas]

@denispeplin @uri PR is welcome. I tried to clarify this few times, but issues like this still happen.

[jonchoukroun]

Hi @igas I know you closed this issue, but I can't find the solution to this anywhere. How can I start the faker app in priv/repo/seeds.exs? I'm happy to write a PR with additional documentation if I figure it out.

[tobyhinloopen]

@jonchoukroun Just a thought, but did you try adding Faker.start at the top of your seeds file?

[jonchoukroun]

@tobyhinloopen thanks for the advice, but that didn't work. I did solve it, though, by adding
import Faker
then calling it as if it had been aliased, like so:
username: Faker.Internet.username

@igas, I would be happy to make a PR for readme, maybe to add an example for using Faker in seeds.exs. Let me know if that's helpful.

Thanks for the help.

[dokicro]

@jonchoukroun I tried to da import Faker as you recommended but I get this error: module Faker is not loaded and could not be found

[uri]

@dokicro are you running import Faker in an iex session?

[jonchoukroun]

@dokicro You have to include Faker in your dependencies. Inside mix.exs in your application's root, find the private function deps/0 which returns a list of tuples. You'll want to include Faker as one of those, then run mix deps.get at the command line.

Inside /priv/repo/seeds.exs you'll add import Faker and that lets you call it as Faker.Internet.user_name. Hope this helps.