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All Rails developers know the slogan “Skinny Controllers, Fat Models” and I heartily agree with it. Every conference you go to, you hear it. But there’s a problem! My Fat models got overweight!

ActiveRecord is great in providing CRUD for your data models. In some cases, however, it’s necessary to prevent write access to these models. The data may be provided by an external source and should only be used as a reference in your application, for example.

The past few days I’v taken some time to find out how to create a Ruby Gem. This has been on my to-do list for quite a while, but now I’m able to tick it off.

Well, what did I make?

Sometimes, using the good old ‘auto increment’ from your database just isn’t good enough. If you really require that all your objects have unique ID, even across systems and different databases there’s only one way go: UUID or Universally Unique IDentifier.