Setting locale (FR) does not change country

[belgoros]

I tried to set up a locale as suggested:

Faker::Config.locale = :fr

I tried to do that in 2 different ways:

• by putting it in spec_helper config block:

require 'faker'
...

RSpec.configure do |config|
...
Faker::Config.locale = :fr
...
end

• by putting it directly in a spec example file (clients_controller_spec.rb):

require 'spec_helper'
require 'faker'

describe ClientsController do
  before { Faker::Config.locale = :fr }
...
end

In both cases the country value was NOT correct:

• CONGO
• SENEGAL
• BARBADOS
• EQUATORIAL GUINEA

etc.

The only solution I found was to set a country as follows in my Factory file:

factory :client do
...
  country    { Faker::Address.default_country }
....
end

Is it a right way ?
Any idea ?

Thank you.

Produced with faker version 1.3.0, Ruby 2.0.0, Windows XP box.

[ridget]

@javix Faker::Address.country returns a random country from the list found in https://github.com/stympy/faker/blob/master/lib/locales/en.yml , the default country will always return the locale country as set by https://github.com/stympy/faker/blob/master/lib/locales/fr.yml or https://github.com/stympy/faker/blob/master/lib/locales/en-au.yml

Assuming you were expecting Faker::Address.country to return France of course :)

[belgoros]

OK, seeing that cities, phones were for France, I believed that setting a locale would also send the appropriate values for all the methods (country, phone, city, first_name, last_name, etc.). I didn't investigate all the generated phones numbers and cities, but I had a strong idea that all of them were French. Can you confirm that ALL the values are generated randomly, no matter which locale is set? If so, why set up a locale in this case ? Thank you.

[ridget]

@javix as far as im aware it only gets overridden by whats actually in https://github.com/stympy/faker/blob/master/lib/locales/fr.yml for the French locale. Any other questions might be best posed at the gem authors, I just came in here to see if there was a pull request I could submit :)

[belgoros]

OK, got it, I'll close the issue as it does not seem to be a bug. Thank you.