Source: ruby-globalid Section: ruby Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team Uploaders: Cédric Boutillier Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), gem2deb, rake, ruby-activesupport, ruby-rails Standards-Version: 4.6.2 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 Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: ruby-globalid Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${ruby: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.