Forum: Ruby GUID

Hi folks,

This is an easy one, but I can't find a way to do it.
It's there, in ruby, any easy means to generate an GUID (Global Unique
Identifier)?

Thank,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, J. mp wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> This is an easy one, but I can't find a way to do it.
> It's there, in ruby, any easy means to generate an GUID (Global Unique
> Identifier)?
>
> Thank,

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=uui...

-a

On 2/26/07, J. mp <joaomiguel.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This is an easy one, but I can't find a way to do it.
> It's there, in ruby, any easy means to generate an GUID (Global Unique
> Identifier)?
>
> Thank,

try either
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-guid/ (windows&unix)

or my patch at (win only):
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=6237...

On Feb 26, 12:57 pm, "J. mp" <joaomiguel.pere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This is an easy one, but I can't find a way to do it.
> It's there, in ruby, any easy means to generate an GUID (Global Unique
> Identifier)?

gem install uuid

require_gem 'uuid'
puts UUID.new


The project page is here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg

Documentation:
http://trac.labnotes.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/Rub...

Assaf

http://labnotes.org

Assaf wrote:
> require_gem 'uuid'
> puts UUID.new

"require_gem" is obsolete, use "gem" if you need to specify a specific 
version of a gem. Mostly you should just use plain "require" to load a 
library that was installed by RubyGems.

On Feb 27, 10:29 am, Tim Hunter <rmag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assaf wrote:
> > require_gem 'uuid'
> > puts UUID.new
>
> "require_gem" is obsolete, use "gem" if you need to specify a specific
> version of a gem. Mostly you should just use plain "require" to load a
> library that was installed by RubyGems.

I should know that :-)

I guess it's time to replace the old docs I was copying & pasting
from.

Assaf