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For the record, enabling UUIDs in rails is straight forward. It's not the default though.
Why turn on UUIDs? They are not as guessable as normal IDs.
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Depending what sort of UUID you're generating that could leak your MAC address to an attacker which could prove useful.
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Why turn on UUIDs? They are not as guessable as normal IDs.