Auto_uuid is a project mainly written in Ruby, based on the MIT license.
auto set uuid column with uuid value
= auto_uuid
== install gem install auto_uuid
== usage say you have each an column called 'uuid' in many of your tables, and you want them automatically be set with universal unique id, unless it's not empty. After install auto uuid gem, all these "uuid" column will be set after creating the object.
== code
require 'uuid'
module AutoUUID def self.included(base) base.send :include, InstanceMethods end
module InstanceMethods
def before_create
super
setup_uuid if (self.respond_to?("uuid=") && self.uuid.nil?)
end
def setup_uuid
self.uuid = UUID.generate
end
end end
ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, AutoUUID
== Note on Patches/Pull Requests
== Copyright
Copyright (c) 2010 tim.teng. See LICENSE for details.