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@admtnnr admtnnr commented Aug 27, 2024

Motivation / Background

This Pull Request has been created because the Faker::Alphanumeric.alphanumeric generator is not deterministic when using min_alpha and/or min_numeric.

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The generator is not currently deterministic when setting a custom Faker::Config.random due to the usage of the standard shuffle array method.

Unfortunately, this can't be caught by the tests in test/test_determinism.rb because the default keyword arguments do not trigger the non-determinism due to the early return when both min_alpha and min_numeric are 0.

I have added a test to the Faker::Alphanumeric test file for this case, but I'm happy to [re]move it if preferred.

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Thank you for opening this PR and contributing to faker!

@stefannibrasil stefannibrasil merged commit caa5507 into faker-ruby:main Sep 6, 2024
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