title: Should we be using Faker in Rails Factories?
body: <p>I love <a href="https://github.com/stympy/faker" rel="noreferrer">Faker</a>, I use it in my <code>seeds.rb</code> all the time to populate my dev environment with real-ish looking data.</p>
  
  <p>I've also just started using <a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails" rel="noreferrer">Factory Girl</a> which also saves a lot of time - but when i sleuth around the web for code examples I don't see much evidence of people combining the two.</p>
  
  <p>Q. Is there a good reason why people don't use faker in a factory? </p>
  
  <p>My feeling is that by doing so I'd increase the robustness of my tests by seeding random - but predictable - data each time, which hopefully would increase the chances of a bug popping up.</p>
  
  <p>But perhaps that's incorrect and there is either no benefit over hard coding a factory or I'm not seeing a potential pitfall. Is there a good reason why these two gems should or shouldn't be combined?</p>