Free Software

These are free software components that we have built or enhanced.

Client Digest Authentication for Ruby SOAP

This is a patch to add Client Digest Authentication for SOAP service. It requires soap4r and http-acces 2 gems. Digest Authentication is mainly use by Microsoft SOAP Services.

Get it here: http://tools.assembla.com/breakout/wiki/DigestForSoap

GUID / UUID for Rails ActiveRecord?

This plugin for ActiveRecord? makes the "ID" field into a URL-safe GUID

Get it from Subversion at http://tools.assembla.com/svn/breakout/breakout/vendor/plugins/guid

Or download the zip file

It is a mashup that includes

• the UUID class from Bob Aman.
• the plugin skeleton from Demetrius Nunes
• the 22 character URL-safe format from Andy Singleton. You can get standard 36 char UUID formats instead
• TODO: Auto-detect a character ID field and use a GUID in this case (DRY principle)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license.

TO USE

• Install as a plugin in the rails directory vendor/plugin/guid
• define ID as char(22)
• call "usesguid" in ActiveRecord? class declaration, like

class Mymodel < ActiveRecord::Base
	usesguid			

if your ID field is not called "ID", call "usesguid :column =>'IdColumnName?' "

If you create your tables with migrations, you need to bypass the rails default primary key index. Do this:

create_table :mytable, :id => false do |t|
  t.column :id, :string, :limit => 22
  ... more fields
end      

execute "ALTER TABLE mytable ADD PRIMARY KEY (id)"