From: Dave Jones <dave@...>
Date: 2013-01-07T11:15:28+09:00
Subject: Re: any gems to generate words synced with unique IDs

I would look at the linguistics gem. 

Dave

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On Jan 6, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Grary Stimon <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a neat way to generate humanized names for records
> associated with a RESTful HTTP resources given the following:
> 
> 1) the child records are currently uniquely id'd by dbase-generated
> 12-byte hexes (a la MongoDB), e.g., 50c4cee7f9034c0333000004
> 
> 2) the parent resource with which the children are associated has a
> humanized name, but uniqueness is not enforced across parent names
> (thus, this would appear a poor choice for a simple slugging approach)
> 
> 3) what I'm hoping for is a way of humanizing the 12-byte strings with
> word-number combinations, such that uniqueness is maintained at least
> within the context of the parent resource, something that gives me
> record id's like "monique23", "larry36", "panther99", etc. In other
> words, I accept that, say, 'panther99' names more than one record, but
> only in different parent resources (of course, this allowance could
> become a bother when the resources have the same name and intent, e.g.,
> "lemonade stand").
> 
> Seems like PAAS Heroku has a strategy for something like the foregoing
> to generate their wildcard DNS names.
> 
> Any thoughts here?
> 
> G
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