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faker-ruby/faker vs linuxbrew/brew

faker-ruby/faker shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, faker shows healthier maintenance signals than brew. faker rates Healthy overall while brew rates Mixed. faker last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while brew last saw a commit 7 years ago with 7+ active contributors. faker is MIT-licensed while brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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faker-ruby/faker

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 52% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

linuxbrew/brew

Mixed

Stale — last commit 7y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 7y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 7 active contributors
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

fakerbrew
Stars11,6012,654
Last commit1mo ago7y ago
LicenseMITBSD-2-Clause
Open issues210
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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