You need to assign UUIDs to your Model? UuidIt makes it as simple as adding one line of code to the according models.
For actually generating the uuids this plugin uses spectra's ruby-uuid (http://github.com/spectra/ruby-uuid) which is based on ruby-uuid (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-uuid/).
script/plugin install git://github.com/aduffeck/uuid_it.git
script/generate uuid_it
rake db:migrate
Add the following line to your config/environment.rb file:
config.gem "uuid_it"
Then
gem install uuid_it
script/generate uuid_it
rake db:migrate
rails plugin install git://github.com/aduffeck/uuid_it.git
rails generate uuid_it
rake db:migrate
Add the following line to your Gemfile:
gem "uuid_it"
Then
bundle install
rails generate uuid_it
rake db:migrate
class Car < ActiveRecord::Base
uuid_it
end
@car.uuid # "9e5edacc-7163-11df-92bb-2d0a2c4dcb1c"
Car.find_by_uuid("9e5edacc-7163-11df-92bb-2d0a2c4dcb1c") # => @car
UUIDs will be assigned to new objects when they are created. Already existing objects will get a UUID when it is accessed for the first time.
Copyright (c) 2010 André Duffeck, released under the MIT license