Source: ruby-globalid Section: ruby Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers Uploaders: Cédric Boutillier Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), gem2deb, rails (>= 2:4.1.0), rake, ruby-activesupport (>= 2:4.1.0) Standards-Version: 4.2.1 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-globalid.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-globalid Homepage: https://github.com/rails/globalid Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-ruby XS-Ruby-Versions: all Package: ruby-globalid Architecture: all XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions} Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter, ruby-activesupport (>= 2:4.1.0), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: ruby-railties Description: reference models by URI for Ruby on Rails A Global ID is an app wide URI of the form gid://YourApp/Some::Model/id that uniquely identifies a model instance. . This is helpful when you need a single identifier to reference different classes of objects, for example in job scheduling, when one needs to reference a model object rather than serialize the object itself. Another example is a drop-down list of options, consisting of both Users and Groups. One has then a universal identifier that works for objects of both classes. . This package is part of the dependencies for the Ruby on Rails framework.