A simple gem to make it easy to use UUIDs as the id for Rails models.
Your table creation migration should look something like this:
create_table :things, :id => false do |t|
t.binary :id, :primary_key => true, :null => false
t.timestamps
end
add_index :things, :id, :unique => true
binary type is your best bet as it will be put into schema.db
correctly.
Then inside of your model just do this:
include UuidIds::ModelHelper
If you need to you can set the id outside of the model. If there is a collision (and you have a unique index) then an exception will be raised and it's up to your app to handle that. If you don't have a unique index and there is a collision you'll have two objects with the same id.
This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.
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