Uniqid
'Uniqid' is a distributed unique ID generator inspired by Twitter's Snowflake.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'uniqid'
And then execute:
$ bundle install
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install uniqid
Usage
# app/models/application_record.rb
class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
self.abstract_class = true
before_create :set_uniqid
def set_uniqid
# TODO: get your worker_id and server_id
self.id = UniqID.generate(worker_id, server_id)
end
end
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec
to run the tests. You can also run bin/console
for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install
. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb
, and then run bundle exec rake release
, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
1.Fork it ( https://github.com/ChanKerwin/uniqid/fork )
2.Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3.Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4.Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5.Create a new Pull Request
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the Uniqid project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.