I’m not exactly sure what this is yet, but the transparent png trick is pretty dang cool. Make sure you resize your browser window once the page is loaded, then watch the vines.

http://silverbackapp.com/

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Need to insert some fake data in your development database? Grab the Faker gem and drop this into lib/tasks/fake_data.rb. Customize it for your model(s) and execute with rake db:development:fake_data.

namespace :db do
  namespace :development do
    desc "Create records in the development database."
    task :fake_data => :environment do
      require 'faker'
 
      100.times do
        c = Client.create(
          :first_name => Faker::Name.first_name,
          :last_name => Faker::Name.last_name,
          :middle_initial => ("A".."Z").to_a.rand, 
          :ss_number => 99999999 + rand(999999999 - 99999999), 
          :date_of_birth => Time.now - (rand(12000)).days) 
      end
    end
  end
end

I’m sure there’s more optimization to be done, but it works for me!

UPDATE: I added a few extra lines for data outside of faker.

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