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ActiveRecordUUID module to use UUID for ActiveRecord id

• Doc: http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid/doc
• Gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid
• Repo: http://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid

Introduction

Enable Active Record models to use a UUID for the id field, by creating a UUID in the Active Record before_save method.

Based on "Using UUID/GUID as Primary Key in Rails" by Paul Dix. http://codesnipers.com/?q=node/143&title=using-uuid/guid-as-primary-key-in-rails

For docs go to http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid/doc

Want to help? We're happy to get pull requests.

Install

Gem

To install this gem in your shell or terminal:

gem install sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid

Gemfile

To add this gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid'

Require

To require the gem in your code:

require 'sixarm_ruby_active_record_uuid'

Example

class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
  include ActiveRecordUUID
end