Time.now.to_i - Maurício Linhares http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ | http://twitter.com/mauriciojr
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, James West<[email protected]> wrote: > > I need to auto generate a guaranteed to be unique number or string to be > used something like this in a partial view <div id=<%=unique_div_id%>> > > I thought of using time.now but that only goes to seconds. I have tried > rand(time.now) but that does not guarantee a nique ID. > There would be more than one partial created within any given second > hence the need for time in milliseconds. > It doesn't have to be a time function it can be anything so long as it > is fast, minimal memory footprint and can be stored in a variable for > use with a link_to_function that will toggle the visibility of the div. > > I thought that this would be such a simple thing to do but I have been > tearing my hair out over this for days and I need a solution real fast. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated > > James > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
