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We want to start recording anonymous users so we can store relevant data such as a fake name, fake avatar, and when their chatroom was last viewed by an admin. We generate the relevant migrations and add the fields we need for an `anonymous_user`. Since the frontend generates a UUID for every anonymous user, the UUID would be perfect as `id` for our AnonymousUser records. We use the `uuid` type for the `id` column of our AnonymousUser and set it to not autogenerate an id. That way, we use the UUID passed to us from the frontend as `id` every time we create a new AnonymousUser record. Now that we have an AnonymousUser, we can associate it with Message so we can easily get all the messages sent by a user. Note that there are a few extra steps for this because we are using a `:uuid` type as `id` instead of the default `:integer`.
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Most of the explanations are in the commits but there some comments to explain some of the code that may be unclear.