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BasedUUID: URL-friendly UUIDs for Rails models

by Piotr Chmolowski —

I made a gem for encoding UUIDs into a URL-friendly, prefixed, base32 format. The rationale behind it is to provide a more manageable, “double-clickable” UUID format and allow for easy lookup (for any model, based on registered prefixes). Inspired by StripeIDs and ulid.

The result is a 26-character, base32-encoded, lowercase string (with an optional prefix):

user_4yoiald3wfbvpeu2sbsk7cssdi

https://github.com/pch/based_uuid

Comments

How comes your example has an “o” in it but “o” isn’t in the base32 alphabet in the code? :-)

Peter Cooper —

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