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

When I used uuid gems recommended in this question, no one can generate unique and random UUID. My answer is a work around, if we have gem later to satisfy the request, you'd better to use gem in Ruby.

I try most recommended uuid gems in this question, but no one make me satisfied, we need unique and random uuid. I directly run system command uuidgen in ruby, and I like the result, and share here.

puts `uuidgen`
8adea17d-b918-43e0-b82f-f81b3029f688
puts `uuidgen`
6a4adcce-8f64-41eb-bd7e-e65ee6d11231
puts `uuidgen`
51d5348b-8fc3-4c44-a6f7-9a8588d7f08a
puts `uuidgen`
332a0fa3-7b07-41e1-9fc8-ef804a377e4e

if compare with uuid gem, you will know the difference.

irb(main):003:0> uuid.generate
=> "40cdf890-ebf5-0132-2250-20c9d088be77"
irb(main):004:0> uuid.generate
=> "4161ac40-ebf5-0132-2250-20c9d088be77"

Test environment is linux and Mac OS environment.