UUIDTools was designed to be a simple library for generating any of the various types of UUIDs. It conforms to RFC 4122 whenever possible. == Example UUIDTools::UUID.md5_create(UUIDTools::UUID_DNS_NAMESPACE, "www.widgets.com") => #<UUID:0x287576 UUID:3d813cbb-47fb-32ba-91df-831e1593ac29> UUIDTools::UUID.sha1_create(UUIDTools::UUID_DNS_NAMESPACE, "www.widgets.com") => #<UUID:0x2a0116 UUID:21f7f8de-