Feature #19854: Make SecureRandom.choose public

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[p8 (Petrik de Heus)]

SecureRandom implements the choose method that randomly draws from a source array of characters.
This method is currently private, but it could be useful as a public method.

For example for generating a pin number:

SecureRandom.choose((0..9).to_a, 6)

Another example is Rails, which implements SecureRandom.base36 and SecureRandom.base58.
These implementations would be a lot simpler (and faster for base36) by replacing it with choose:
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/735cba5bed7a54c7397dfeec1bed16033ae286f8/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/securerandom.rb

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Is duplicate of Feature #18183: make SecureRandom.choose public added

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed