Calculate the md5 hash of a string

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi.

How can I calculate the md5 hash of a string (like in PHP -
http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php)? I can't find any
helpfull documentation about this problem.

bye
Dirk Einecke

 

[matthew c. mead]

require 'digest/md5'
Digest::MD5.hexdigest(str)


-matt

 

[Jim Freeze]

Hi.

How can I calculate the md5 hash of a string (like in PHP -
http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php)? I can't find any
helpfull documentation about this problem.

require 'md5'
MD5.md5("fred") #=> 570a90bfbf8c7eab5dc5d4e26832d5b1


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[Wesley J Landaker]

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Hi.

How can I calculate the md5 hash of a string (like in PHP -
http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php)? I can't find any
helpfull documentation about this problem.

irb(main):001:0> require 'md5'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> MD5.digest("test")
=> "\t\217k\315F!\323s\312\336N\203&'\264\366"
irb(main):003:0> MD5.hexdigest("test")
=> "098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6"
irb(main):004:0> md5 = MD5.new
=> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
irb(main):005:0> md5.update("te")
=> 569ef72642be0fadd711d6a468d68ee1
irb(main):006:0> md5 << "st"
=> 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6

- --
Wesley J. Landaker <[email protected]>
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[Jim Freeze]

I can't find any (real) documentation, either, but:

Go to:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

and click on digest in the left-hand frame and then MD5 in
the top center frame.


--
Jim Freeze

Bureaucrat, n.:
A person who cuts red tape sideways.
-- J. McCabe

 

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi.

How can I calculate the md5 hash of a string (like in PHP -
http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php)? I can't find any
helpfull documentation about this problem.

Thank you all for you help.

bye
Dirk Einecke

 

[Gavin Sinclair]

Actually I did just that to be able to guess how to calculate the hash and
it's certainly *much* better than no documentation at all, but it's not
what I'd call 'real' documentation for the module.

There's ruby/ext/digest/digest.txt in the source distribution, which
I'll fold into the source code one day, whereupon it will appear in
the the above-linked documentation.

Cheers,
Gavin