On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:17:40PM -0700, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> (Cross post from #7278 <https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/7278>)
> 
> Now that ActiveRecord supports uuid datatypes 
> (#6713<https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/6713>) 
> I suspect that having UUID instead of auto-incrementing primary keys will 
> become fairly popular. It's already possible to do this yourself but 
> perhaps it should be built into ActiveRecord?

Just a hunch, but I don't think much needs to be changed in AR.  If
we're doing anything in AR to assume that the id is an integer, it's
probably a bug.

The main place where we'll need changes is in migrations and schema.rb
generation.

> I'm happy to contribute a patch but was wanting to solicit feedback on 
> wether this is wanted and if anybody had ideas on how the configuration 
> should go.

I think the main changes will be in the migrations.  Probably need to
somewhat change the api of the create_table method calls.  If you can
get something working (even partially) send a link here, or a PR and we
can work on it together.

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Aaron Patterson
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