Generating Guids in Ruby

Question

I have problem that is really easily solved with Guids.

In particular, for a password reset workflow, I would like to send a Guid token to a user\'s email and have

Answer 1

As of Ruby 1.9, uuid generation is built-in. Use the SecureRandom.uuid function.

For example:

require 'securerandom'
SecureRandom.uuid # => "96b0a57c-d9ae-453f-b56f-3b154eb10cda"