ideal for user-facing UUIDs. You probably shouldn't use this if you are relying on unique identifiers in the multi-billions range. A very rough calculation revealed 10 million can be generated with a collision probability far below 1 ten-thousandth of a percent. If that sounds like it's good enough for you, then go forth friend, and use with confidence.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'nice_uuid'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install nice_uuid
NiceUuid.generate(36)
will generate you a nice uuid with 4, dash-separated, readable words that is not greater than 36 characters Don't ask for one smaller than about 27 characters. Sorry, kids. It's stupidly simple for a reason.
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request