From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T06:48:44+09:00
Subject: Re: generate uuid

On Sep 1, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Heesob Park wrote:
>
>> 2008/8/28 Newb Newb <hema@angleritech.com>:
>>> How Can I  generate uuid ? any references or Ideas could You people
>>> suggest.I have not even heard about it?
>>
>> You get get UUID on the WEB like this:
>>
>> require 'open-uri'
>> uuid = open('http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen').
>>        read.scan(/<h3>([-[:alnum:]]+)<\/h3>/).to_s
>> puts uuid
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Park Heesob
>
>
> One thing I;ve found is that all of the UUID generators are  
> painfully slow if you need to make a bunch of uuid's.

My favorite trick is:

   uuid = `uuidgen`.strip

It has always been fast enough for my needs.

James Edward Gray II