= UIDAttribute -- Globally Unique Identifiable Attributes

machina to automatically generate UUIDs upon object instantiation.


== Example

  require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'lib','uid_attribute')

  class MyObject
    include UIDAttribute

    attr_accessor :uid
    uid_attribute :uid  # this is optional e.g. to change the UID attribute
  end

  puts MyObject.new.uid
  # => 4981a86e-239c-45dd-b4b3-283c435fb8ad

== Use case

Some projects are confined by regulations (or requirements) that demand data can not be used to identify individuals. In such cases data must be scrubbed i.e. identifiable object names must be removed before unauthorized users can see said data. For example, when a developer needs to recreate a bug on their own system that was reported by a customer using customer-specific data.

One method to do this is to use globally unique identifiers within the system to identify any given object.

== Installation

 % gem install uid_attribute

== License

Copyright (c) 2010 [Paul Belt], released under the MIT license

== Support

http://github.com/belt/uid_attribute