Version of UUID generated

[avinmathew]

Which UUID version is used by this gem to generate UUIDs?

From my understanding of Variants and versions of UUIDs on Wikipedia, the character M defines the version and should be either set to 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. However, when I generate a UUID using this gem, the M character appears to be always set to 0. I would have expected it to be set to 1 since the gem README indicates that the MAC address is used as part of generation.

[assaf]

RFC 4122: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt

[avinmathew]

I did have a read of that, and do note sections 4.1.1 Variant and 4.1.3 Version. I could not resolve that against the Wikipedia description - I found the RFC difficult to understand, particularly the parts on Msb.

It's just that all the online UUID generators seem to set the M character to the version number. The Python doc examples also seem to follow that as well.

[hamiltop]

Why did this get closed? The UUIDs are not generated according the the RFC cited.

PR at #53 to correctly set them.