vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/secret_key_generator.rb

   1 require 'active_support/deprecation'
   2
   3 module Rails
   4   # A class for creating random secret keys. This class will do its best to create a
   5   # random secret key that's as secure as possible, using whatever methods are
   6   # available on the current platform. For example:
   7   #
   8   #   generator = Rails::SecretKeyGenerator("some unique identifier, such as the application name")
   9   #   generator.generate_secret     # => "f3f1be90053fa851... (some long string)"
  10   #
  11   # This class is *deprecated* in Rails 2.2 in favor of ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.
  12   # It is currently a wrapper around ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.
  13   class SecretKeyGenerator
  14     def initialize(identifier)
  15     end
  16
  17     # Generate a random secret key with the best possible method available on
  18     # the current platform.
  19     def generate_secret
  20       ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(64)
  21     end
  22     deprecate :generate_secret=>"You should use ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(64)"
  23   end
  24 end