struct UUID

• UUID
• Struct
• Value
• Object

Overview

Represents a UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier).

NOTE To use UUID, you must explicitly import it with require "uuid"

Included Modules

• Comparable(UUID)

Defined in:

Class Method Summary

• .uuid3(ns : UUID | Namespace, value)

  Generate a UUID from the MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name.

• .uuid4

  Generate a random UUID.

• .uuid5(ns : UUID | Namespace, value)

  Generate a UUID from the SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name.

Class Method Detail

require "uuid_utils"

namespace = UUID.new("68ab717d-d847-4277-be1a-303be8ac3d97")
msg = "Hello World!"
puts UUID.uuid3(namespace, msg) # => 33056d85-5061-31c8-9656-df07f3eec397

require "uuid_utils"

puts UUID.uuid4 # => 39e54402-44c6-42c6-be52-4bb9ab18a5fa

require "uuid_utils"

namespace = UUID.new("68ab717d-d847-4277-be1a-303be8ac3d97")
msg = "Hello World!"
puts UUID.uuid5(namespace, msg) # => 562ed049-5b55-582d-ba51-812a786927ca