Comments on: Rails, ActiveRecord, MySQL, GUIDs and the rename_column bug http://inodes.org/2008/01/11/rails-activerecord-mysql-guids-and-the-rename_column-bug/ Moo - Development, Trouble-shooting and Random thoughts... Fri, 20 May 2011 17:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Chris Hapgood http://inodes.org/2008/01/11/rails-activerecord-mysql-guids-and-the-rename_column-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-2480 Chris Hapgood Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:29:39 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/2008/01/11/rails-activerecord-mysql-guids-and-the-rename_column-bug/#comment-2480 [Better late than never -it took me a while to get this up on a public repo] You could also try my uuid_primary_key plugin. Solves these problems by completely removing the auto_increment primary key. The primary key is renamed to uuid. Performance problems with your DB can still result if you are oblivious to the impact of a 36-char string versus an integer. But my experience with moderately-sized data sets is pretty good. http://github.com/cch1/uuid_primary_key/tree/master [Better late than never -it took me a while to get this up on a public repo]

You could also try my uuid_primary_key plugin. Solves these problems by completely removing the auto_increment primary key. The primary key is renamed to uuid. Performance problems with your DB can still result if you are oblivious to the impact of a 36-char string versus an integer. But my experience with moderately-sized data sets is pretty good.

http://github.com/cch1/uuid_primary_key/tree/master

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