From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-08-20T01:35:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any clever way to encode the uuid string with base64?

On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Cyril.Liu wrote:

> I've got the uuid string using uuid.rb just like this:
> 
> ree-1.8.7-2010.02 > uuid = UUID.new()
> => MAC: 34:15:9e:33:f8:3c  Sequence: 19368
> ree-1.8.7-2010.02 > uuid.generate(:compact)
> => "d52553808dda012d4ba834159e33f83c"
> 
> But the string is too long for me, i want to encode it with base64.
> Is any clever way to do this?

If anything, base64 encoding will make it *longer*. 

What are you trying to accomplish?

cr