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Generate Random Password In Ruby

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Generate Random Password In Ruby

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Mickael Gerard
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Mar. 06, 07 ·
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Aaron Blohowiak suggests adding this as a public method in user.rb:
  


def new_random_password
  self.password= Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("--#{Time.now.to_s}--#{login}--")[0,6]
  self.password_confirmation = self.password
end

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