From 9408bba58be4b2d92bd2a7f9b39f442cddf81bdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zzak Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:40:08 +0000 Subject: * lib/securerandom.rb: [DOC] SecureRandom.hex length argument [Fixes GH-394] Patch by @avdi https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/394 git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@42991 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ lib/securerandom.rb | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1769ad28dd..f2e2a11d6a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Sep 20 23:37:40 2013 Zachary Scott + + * lib/securerandom.rb: [DOC] SecureRandom.hex length argument + [Fixes GH-394] Patch by @avdi https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/394 + Fri Sep 20 23:34:48 2013 Zachary Scott * benchmark/bm_app_answer.rb: removed duplicate code [Fixes GH-393] diff --git a/lib/securerandom.rb b/lib/securerandom.rb index b1603b4ca9..f12bc00114 100644 --- a/lib/securerandom.rb +++ b/lib/securerandom.rb @@ -116,10 +116,10 @@ module SecureRandom raise NotImplementedError, "No random device" end - # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hex string. + # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hexadecimal string. # - # The argument _n_ specifies the length of the random length. - # The length of the result string is twice of _n_. + # The argument _n_ specifies the length, in bytes, of the random number to be generated. + # The length of the resulting hexadecimal string is twice _n_. # # If _n_ is not specified, 16 is assumed. # It may be larger in future. -- cgit v1.2.3