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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/base64.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/base64.rb
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+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/base64.rb
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+require 'base64'
+
+require 'active_support/core_ext/base64/encoding'
+
+module Base64#:nodoc:
+  extend ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Base64::Encoding
+end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/base64/encoding.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/base64/encoding.rb
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+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/base64/encoding.rb
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+module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
+  module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
+    module Base64 #:nodoc:
+      module Encoding
+        # Encodes the value as base64 without the newline breaks. This makes the base64 encoding readily usable as URL parameters 
+        # or memcache keys without further processing.
+        def encode64s(value)
+          ::Base64.encode64(value).gsub(/\n/, '')
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+\ No newline at end of file