I need to generate uuid for my rails application. What are the options(gems) I have?

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I use Rails 3.0.20 and ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352)

Please suggest me the best plugin to generate guid.

Answer

apneadiving picture apneadiving · Aug 14, 2013

There are plenty of options, I recommend not to add additional dependencies and use SecureRandom which is builtin:

SecureRandom.uuid #=> "1ca71cd6-08c4-4855-9381-2f41aeffe59c"

See other possible formats here.

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