From: Lars Haugseth <njus@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T23:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: uniuq no

* Vetrivel Vetrivel <vetrivel.bksys@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I want to create new unique id in ruby.I have used the following
> coding.But I don''t know whether it works perfectly or not.
> 
>  t = Time.new
>  p "%10.5f" % t.to_f
> 
> does it give unique value always.I you know some other way ,please say
> to create unique id .

UUID� is a standard way of constructing unique identifiers, and a Ruby
library� exist already, so unless you require the identifiers to be
integers, I suggest you use that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID
[2] http://wiki.github.com/assaf/uuid

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Lars Haugseth

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