active_uxid

ActiveUxid

ActiveUxid is a library for generating obfuscated UXid's.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_uxid'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_uxid

Table of Contents

• Configuration
• Hash
• Ulid
• ActiveRecord

Configuration

rails generate active_uxid:install will generate the following file: ../config/initalizers/active_uxid.rb

ActiveUxid.configure do |config|
  config.encoding_chars = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
  config.encoding_length = 26
  config.encoding_salt = 1_369_136
end

Hash

# Hash ID's are reversible but less performant
# than ULID

ActiveUxid::Hash.encode(10)         #=> 'q5D8inm0'
ActiveUxid::Hash.decode('q5D8inm0') #=> 10

Ulid

# ULID are secure as they are not reversible
# They are also more performant than Hash ID's

ActiveUxid::Ulid.encode #=> '1mqfg9qa96s8s5f02o1ucf8lcc'

ActiveRecord

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Add a uxid binary attribute to the corresponding table.

  include ActiveUxid::Record::Hash
  # Or
  include ActiveUxid::Record::Ulid
end

# Hash UXid's type only
User.find_by_uxid('x123') #=> find record by uxid

user = User.new
user.uxid_to_id          #=> decodes the records uxid to id

Contributing

Your contribution is welcome.

• Fork it
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create new Pull Request