NiceUuid

for user-facing UUIDs

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nice_uuid'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nice_uuid

Usage

NiceUuid.generate(36)

will generate you a nice uuid with 4, dash-separated, readable words that is not greater than 36 characters Don't ask for one smaller than about 27 characters. Sorry, kids. It's stupidly simple for a reason.

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request