begin require 'base64' rescue LoadError end module ActiveSupport if defined? ::Base64 Base64 = ::Base64 else # 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 end end # 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. # # ActiveSupport::Base64.encode64s("Original unencoded string") # # => "T3JpZ2luYWwgdW5lbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==" def Base64.encode64s(value) encode64(value).gsub(/\n/, '') end end