From 045de8a9c56aa1a8f9cef89e0bf0e533fa994d32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hsbt Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 06:36:00 +0000 Subject: * lib/securerandom.rb: improve syntax and grammar of documentation. [fix GH-796][ci skip] Patch by @Erol git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@49100 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- lib/securerandom.rb | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/securerandom.rb') diff --git a/lib/securerandom.rb b/lib/securerandom.rb index 3e932f6b0e..476f5e1233 100644 --- a/lib/securerandom.rb +++ b/lib/securerandom.rb @@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ end # == Secure random number generator interface. # -# This library is an interface for secure random number generator which is -# suitable for generating session key in HTTP cookies, etc. +# This library is an interface to secure random number generators which are +# suitable for generating session keys in HTTP cookies, etc. # # You can use this library in your application by requiring it: # # require 'securerandom' # -# It supports following secure random number generators. +# It supports the following secure random number generators: # # * openssl # * /dev/urandom @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ end # # === Examples # -# Hexadecimal string. +# Generate random hexadecimal strings: # # require 'securerandom' # @@ -29,16 +29,23 @@ end # p SecureRandom.hex(10) #=> "92b15d6c8dc4beb5f559" # p SecureRandom.hex(13) #=> "39b290146bea6ce975c37cfc23" # -# Base64 string. +# Generate random base64 strings: # # p SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "EcmTPZwWRAozdA==" # p SecureRandom.base64(10) #=> "KO1nIU+p9DKxGg==" # p SecureRandom.base64(12) #=> "7kJSM/MzBJI+75j8" # -# Binary string. +# Generate random binary strings: # # p SecureRandom.random_bytes(10) #=> "\016\t{\370g\310pbr\301" # p SecureRandom.random_bytes(10) #=> "\323U\030TO\234\357\020\a\337" +# +# Generate UUIDs: +# +# p SecureRandom.uuid #=> "2d931510-d99f-494a-8c67-87feb05e1594" +# p SecureRandom.uuid #=> "bad85eb9-0713-4da7-8d36-07a8e4b00eab" +# + module SecureRandom if /mswin|mingw/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM require "fiddle/import" @@ -103,8 +110,8 @@ module SecureRandom # p SecureRandom.random_bytes #=> "\xD8\\\xE0\xF4\r\xB2\xFC*WM\xFF\x83\x18\xF45\xB6" # p SecureRandom.random_bytes #=> "m\xDC\xFC/\a\x00Uf\xB2\xB2P\xBD\xFF6S\x97" # - # If secure random number generator is not available, - # NotImplementedError is raised. + # If a secure random number generator is not available, + # +NotImplementedError+ is raised. def self.random_bytes(n=nil) n = n ? n.to_int : 16 gen_random(n) @@ -157,18 +164,18 @@ module SecureRandom # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hexadecimal string. # # 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_. + # The length of the resulting hexadecimal string is twice of _n_. # # If _n_ is not specified or is nil, 16 is assumed. - # It may be larger in future. + # It may be larger in the future. # # The result may contain 0-9 and a-f. # # p SecureRandom.hex #=> "eb693ec8252cd630102fd0d0fb7c3485" # p SecureRandom.hex #=> "91dc3bfb4de5b11d029d376634589b61" # - # If secure random number generator is not available, - # NotImplementedError is raised. + # If a secure random number generator is not available, + # +NotImplementedError+ is raised. def self.hex(n=nil) random_bytes(n).unpack("H*")[0] end @@ -179,15 +186,15 @@ module SecureRandom # to be generated. The length of the result string is about 4/3 of _n_. # # If _n_ is not specified or is nil, 16 is assumed. - # It may be larger in future. + # It may be larger in the future. # # The result may contain A-Z, a-z, 0-9, "+", "/" and "=". # # p SecureRandom.base64 #=> "/2BuBuLf3+WfSKyQbRcc/A==" # p SecureRandom.base64 #=> "6BbW0pxO0YENxn38HMUbcQ==" # - # If secure random number generator is not available, - # NotImplementedError is raised. + # If a secure random number generator is not available, + # +NotImplementedError+ is raised. # # See RFC 3548 for the definition of base64. def self.base64(n=nil) @@ -200,7 +207,7 @@ module SecureRandom # to be generated. The length of the result string is about 4/3 of _n_. # # If _n_ is not specified or is nil, 16 is assumed. - # It may be larger in future. + # It may be larger in the future. # # The boolean argument _padding_ specifies the padding. # If it is false or nil, padding is not generated. @@ -216,8 +223,8 @@ module SecureRandom # p SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64(nil, true) #=> "i0XQ-7gglIsHGV2_BNPrdQ==" # p SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64(nil, true) #=> "-M8rLhr7JEpJlqFGUMmOxg==" # - # If secure random number generator is not available, - # NotImplementedError is raised. + # If a secure random number generator is not available, + # +NotImplementedError+ is raised. # # See RFC 3548 for the definition of URL-safe base64. def self.urlsafe_base64(n=nil, padding=false) @@ -231,15 +238,15 @@ module SecureRandom # SecureRandom.random_number generates a random number. # # If a positive integer is given as _n_, - # SecureRandom.random_number returns an integer: - # 0 <= SecureRandom.random_number(n) < n. + # +SecureRandom.random_number+ returns an integer, such that: + # +0 <= SecureRandom.random_number(n) < n+. # # p SecureRandom.random_number(100) #=> 15 # p SecureRandom.random_number(100) #=> 88 # # If 0 is given or an argument is not given, - # SecureRandom.random_number returns a float: - # 0.0 <= SecureRandom.random_number() < 1.0. + # +SecureRandom.random_number+ returns a float, such that: + # +0.0 <= SecureRandom.random_number() < 1.0+. # # p SecureRandom.random_number #=> 0.596506046187744 # p SecureRandom.random_number #=> 0.350621695741409 @@ -273,14 +280,14 @@ module SecureRandom end end - # SecureRandom.uuid generates a v4 random UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier). + # SecureRandom.uuid generates a random v4 UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier). # # p SecureRandom.uuid #=> "2d931510-d99f-494a-8c67-87feb05e1594" # p SecureRandom.uuid #=> "bad85eb9-0713-4da7-8d36-07a8e4b00eab" # p SecureRandom.uuid #=> "62936e70-1815-439b-bf89-8492855a7e6b" # # The version 4 UUID is purely random (except the version). - # It doesn't contain meaningful information such as MAC address, time, etc. + # It doesn't contain meaningful information such as MAC addresses, timestamps, etc. # # See RFC 4122 for details of UUID. # -- cgit v1.2.3