Uniqid(php) for ruby:

Ruby
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Php code:

$uniq_id = md5(uniqid(time()));

As for ruby?:frowning:

thanks.

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Tannev V. wrote:

$uniq_id = md5(uniqid(time()));

Coming from Perl, I use a combination of the system time and the process
ID as the basis for a unique ID. I don’t know if Ruby has anything
ready-made for this, but it would be nice if it did.

MD5 and other hashing algorithms are susceptible to collisions, so you
won’t necessarily get a unique ID even if the original data is unique.

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Tannev V. [email protected]
wrote:

As for ruby?:frowning:

prompt% gem list --remote --no-update-sources | grep uuid
uuid (1.0.4)
uuid4r (0.1)
uuidtools (1.0.3)

HTH!