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Public Instance Methods

Digest(name) → digest_subclass click to toggle source

Returns a Digest subclass by name in a thread-safe manner even when on-demand loading is involved.

require 'digest'

Digest("MD5")
# => Digest::MD5

Digest(:SHA256)
# => Digest::SHA256

Digest(:Foo)
# => LoadError: library not found for class Digest::Foo -- digest/foo

 
               # File digest/lib/digest.rb, line 95
def Digest(name)
  const = name.to_sym
  Digest::REQUIRE_MUTEX.synchronize {
    # Ignore autoload's because it is void when we have #const_missing
    Digest.const_missing(const)
  }
rescue LoadError
  # Constants do not necessarily rely on digest/*.
  if Digest.const_defined?(const)
    Digest.const_get(const)
  else
    raise
  end
end