UUIDTools

Homepage

sporkmonger/uuidtools

Author

Bob Aman

Copyright

Copyright © 2005-2014 Bob Aman

License

Apache 2.0

Description

UUIDTools was designed to be a simple library for generating any of the various types of UUIDs. It conforms to RFC 4122 whenever possible.

Reference

• UUIDTools::UUID

Example usage

require "uuidtools"

UUIDTools::UUID.md5_create(UUIDTools::UUID_DNS_NAMESPACE, "www.widgets.com")
# => #<UUID:0x287576 UUID:3d813cbb-47fb-32ba-91df-831e1593ac29>
UUIDTools::UUID.sha1_create(UUIDTools::UUID_DNS_NAMESPACE, "www.widgets.com")
# => #<UUID:0x2a0116 UUID:21f7f8de-8051-5b89-8680-0195ef798b6a>
UUIDTools::UUID.timestamp_create
# => #<UUID:0x2adfdc UUID:64a5189c-25b3-11da-a97b-00c04fd430c8>
UUIDTools::UUID.random_create
# => #<UUID:0x19013a UUID:984265dc-4200-4f02-ae70-fe4f48964159>

Install

$ sudo gem install uuidtools