You want to use Time.now.to_f if you're worried about more than one hit per second.
On Aug 19, 11:44 am, Maurício Linhares <[email protected]> wrote: > Time.now.to_i > > - > Maurício > Linhareshttp://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 viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
