public Method

SecretKeyGenerator.generate_secret_with_urandom

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Generate a random secret key with /dev/urandom. Raises SystemCallError on failure.

Source Code

# File rails_generator/secret_key_generator.rb, line 85
def generate_secret_with_urandom
  return File.read("/dev/urandom", 64).unpack("H*")[0]
end
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