md5

  • In PHP, we use the md5 function to calculate an MD5 hash. In Ruby, we use the Digest::MD5 class. We first need to require the Digest library using require "digest". This is similar to using require_once to include a class in PHP. To get the equivalent of the hash we’d generate using md5(), we use the hexdigest method.

    PHP

    print md5("my string");
// => 2ba81a47c5512d9e23c435c1f29373cb

    Ruby

    require "digest"
 
print Digest::MD5.hexdigest("my string")
# => 2ba81a47c5512d9e23c435c1f29373cb

    see also

← ltrim md5_file →

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