Hi.
I knocked together a little C extension today with the help of the guys on the ruby-lang irc channel, it uses the libuuid stuff generally available on unix boxes to generate uuids. If anyone is interested, it's available at http://www.tufty.ath.cx/~simon/uuid_generator-0.1.tar.gz
BSD licensed, do what you like with it.
Simon
Woops. Mixup on the webserver meant that anyone who trid getting to it would have got a 403. My bad, and should be fixed now.
I should probably mention that I have no idea if this works under Windows. Should work under any relatively recent unix-alike, though
Simon
On 6 Jun 2005, at 00:12, Simon Stapleton wrote:
Hi.
I knocked together a little C extension today with the help of the guys on the ruby-lang irc channel, it uses the libuuid stuff generally available on unix boxes to generate uuids. If anyone is interested, it's available at http://www.tufty.ath.cx/~simon/uuid_generator-0.1.tar.gz
BSD licensed, do what you like with it.
Simon
Simon Stapleton wrote:
I knocked together a little C extension today with the help of the guys
on the ruby-lang irc channel, it uses the libuuid stuff generally
available on unix boxes to generate uuids. If anyone is interested,
it's available at http://www.tufty.ath.cx/~simon/ uuid_generator-0.1.tar.gz
I went through this exercise myself a while back, and then discovered
that DCE-style UUIDs are called GUIDs in Windows (Microsoft having
independently implemented DCE), and there's a pure Ruby implementation
available:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-guid/
Steve