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author | Pratik Naik <pratiknaik@gmail.com> | 2008-10-05 22:16:26 +0100 |
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committer | Pratik Naik <pratiknaik@gmail.com> | 2008-10-05 22:16:26 +0100 |
commit | a2932784bb71e72a78c32819ebd7ed2bed551e3e (patch) | |
tree | 99bfd589a48153e33f19ae72baa6e98f5708a9b8 /activesupport/lib/active_support/base64.rb | |
parent | 4df45d86097efbeabceecfe53d8ea2da9ccbb107 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/base64.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/base64.rb index 602eef06b2..acb8e5a967 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/base64.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/base64.rb @@ -7,13 +7,24 @@ module ActiveSupport if defined? ::Base64 Base64 = ::Base64 else - # Ruby 1.9 doesn't provide base64, so we wrap this here + # Base64 provides utility methods for encoding and de-coding binary data + # using a base 64 representation. A base 64 representation of binary data + # consists entirely of printable US-ASCII characters. The Base64 module + # is included in Ruby 1.8, but has been removed in Ruby 1.9. module Base64 - + # Encodes a string to its base 64 representation. Each 60 characters of + # output is separated by a newline character. + # + # ActiveSupport::Base64.encode64("Original unencoded string") + # # => "T3JpZ2luYWwgdW5lbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==\n" def self.encode64(data) [data].pack("m") end + # Decodes a base 64 encoded string to its original representation. + # + # ActiveSupport::Base64.decode64("T3JpZ2luYWwgdW5lbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==") + # # => "Original unencoded string" def self.decode64(data) data.unpack("m").first end |