unique primary key increments

Luca_Mearelli1 (Luca Mearelli) January 6, 2007, 2:54pm 1

why not use an UUID instaed of a numeric ID?

you could use this gem for generating them: http://sporkmonger.com/projects/uuidtools/

hth Luca

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