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Generate A UUID With UUIDTools In Ruby1.9.1

03.17.2010

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        Source: <a href="http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/8403">Generate a UUID with UUIDTools</a> [dzone.com]

<pre>
sudo gem1.9.1 install uuidtools

Successfully installed uuidtools-2.1.1
1 gem installed
</pre>

require 'uuidtools'
#=> true
UUIDTools::UUID.md5_create(UUIDTools::UUID_DNS_NAMESPACE, "www.widgets.com")
#=> #<UUID:0x5262112 UUID:3d813cbb-47fb-32ba-91df-831e1593ac29>

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