| Module | ActiveSupport::SecureRandom |
| In: |
lib/active_support/secure_random.rb
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This library is an interface for secure random number generator which is suitable for generating session key in HTTP cookies, etc.
It supports following secure random number generators.
Note: This module is based on the SecureRandom library from Ruby 1.9, revision 18786, August 23 2008. It‘s 100% interface-compatible with Ruby 1.9‘s SecureRandom library.
# random hexadecimal string.
p SecureRandom.hex(10) #=> "52750b30ffbc7de3b362"
p SecureRandom.hex(10) #=> "92b15d6c8dc4beb5f559"
p SecureRandom.hex(11) #=> "6aca1b5c58e4863e6b81b8"
p SecureRandom.hex(12) #=> "94b2fff3e7fd9b9c391a2306"
p SecureRandom.hex(13) #=> "39b290146bea6ce975c37cfc23"
...
# random base64 string.
p SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "EcmTPZwWRAozdA=="
p SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "9b0nsevdwNuM/w=="
p SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "KO1nIU+p9DKxGg=="
p SecureRandom.base64(11) #=> "l7XEiFja+8EKEtY="
p SecureRandom.base64(12) #=> "7kJSM/MzBJI+75j8"
p SecureRandom.base64(13) #=> "vKLJ0tXBHqQOuIcSIg=="
...
# random binary string.
p SecureRandom.random_bytes(10) #=> "\016\t{\370g\310pbr\301"
p SecureRandom.random_bytes(10) #=> "\323U\030TO\234\357\020\a\337"
...
SecureRandom.base64 generates a random base64 string.
The argument n specifies the length of the random length. The length of the result string is about 4/3 of n.
If n is not specified, 16 is assumed. It may be larger in future.
If secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.
SecureRandom.hex generates a random hex string.
The argument n specifies the length of the random length. The length of the result string is twice of n.
If n is not specified, 16 is assumed. It may be larger in future.
If secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.
SecureRandom.random_bytes generates a random binary string.
The argument n specifies the length of the result string.
If n is not specified, 16 is assumed. It may be larger in future.
If secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.
SecureRandom.random_number generates a random number.
If an positive integer is given as n, SecureRandom.random_number returns an integer: 0 <= SecureRandom.random_number(n) < n.
If 0 is given or an argument is not given, SecureRandom.random_number returns an float: 0.0 <= SecureRandom.random_number() < 1.0.