Will can help you to inject easy identifiers into your ActiveRecord models.

It will:

• set up a before_save callback to set identifier
• override to_param to return identifier
• give you a short_identifer that returns the first 12 chars of identifier

Rightnow its very opinonated and not configurable in any way, this might change.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mad_id'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mad_id

class YourModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  identify_with :foo
end

after you create the object it will have the identifier attribute set to

"foo-<UUID>"

If your not using Rails you'll have to include MadId on your own

class YourModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  include MadID

  identify_with :baz
end

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//mad_id/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request