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Receipt - use UUIDs

  • Tip found on blog.bigbinary.com

  • Add following lines to your config/application.rb

    # Use UUIDs instead of integer as primary keys
    config.generators do |g| 
      g.orm :active_record, primary_key_type: :uuid
    end