This library is an interface to secure random number generators which are suitable for generating session keys in HTTP cookies, etc.
You can use this library in your application by requiring it:
require 'securerandom'
It supports the following secure random number generators:
openssl
/dev/urandom
Win32
SecureRandom
is extended by the Random::Formatter
module which defines the following methods:
alphanumeric
base64
choose
hex
rand
random_bytes
random_number
urlsafe_base64
uuid
These methods are usable as class methods of SecureRandom
such as `SecureRandom.hex`.
Generate random hexadecimal strings:
require 'securerandom' SecureRandom.hex(10) #=> "52750b30ffbc7de3b362" SecureRandom.hex(10) #=> "92b15d6c8dc4beb5f559" SecureRandom.hex(13) #=> "39b290146bea6ce975c37cfc23"
Generate random base64 strings:
SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "EcmTPZwWRAozdA==" SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "KO1nIU+p9DKxGg==" SecureRandom.base64(12) #=> "7kJSM/MzBJI+75j8"
Generate random binary strings:
SecureRandom.random_bytes(10) #=> "\016\t{\370g\310pbr\301" SecureRandom.random_bytes(10) #=> "\323U\030TO\234\357\020\a\337"
Generate alphanumeric strings:
SecureRandom.alphanumeric(10) #=> "S8baxMJnPl" SecureRandom.alphanumeric(10) #=> "aOxAg8BAJe"
Generate UUIDs:
SecureRandom.uuid #=> "2d931510-d99f-494a-8c67-87feb05e1594" SecureRandom.uuid #=> "bad85eb9-0713-4da7-8d36-07a8e4b00eab"