Good alternatives to rails GlobalID?

[schpet]

I'm using graphql ruby's "Node" interface and rails' GlobalID library as shown in the documentation's example. I'm interested in getting shorter ids though, preferably in line with @rmosolgo's blog post about "What makes a good ID?"

Currently using postgres uuids for primary keys. Wondering if there's a library out there to help with this.

[schpet]

i landed on the strategy of using strings for primary keys, and generating my own ids in app code.

not much to it, but i put together a small gem make the pattern easy to adopt, and it includes a way to lookup objects as well:

• https://github.com/schpet/cool_id
• https://rubygems.org/gems/cool_id