require 'base64' module ActiveSupport Base64 = ::Base64 # 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