From: nobu@...
Date: 2018-01-26T04:03:27+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:85126] [Ruby trunk Feature#4938] Add Random.bytes [patch]

Issue #4938 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


Updated.

```diff
diff --git i/random.c w/random.c
index 43a3d2ffee..b800f1d9a1 100644
--- i/random.c
+++ w/random.c
@@ -1134,6 +1134,19 @@ rb_random_bytes(VALUE obj, long n)
     return genrand_bytes(rnd, n);
 }
 
+/*
+ * call-seq: Random.bytes(size) -> a_string
+ *
+ * Returns a random binary string.  The argument size specified the length of
+ * the result string.
+ */
+static VALUE
+random_s_bytes(VALUE obj, VALUE len)
+{
+    rb_random_t *rnd = rand_start(&default_rand);
+    return genrand_bytes(rnd, NUM2LONG(rb_to_int(len)));
+}
+
 static VALUE
 range_values(VALUE vmax, VALUE *begp, VALUE *endp, int *exclp)
 {
@@ -1636,6 +1649,7 @@ InitVM_Random(void)
 
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "srand", rb_f_srand, -1);
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "rand", random_s_rand, -1);
+    rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "bytes", random_s_bytes, 1);
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "new_seed", random_seed, 0);
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "urandom", random_raw_seed, 1);
     rb_define_private_method(CLASS_OF(rb_cRandom), "state", random_s_state, 0);
diff --git i/test/ruby/test_rand.rb w/test/ruby/test_rand.rb
index 882d33fb40..136ee4f912 100644
--- i/test/ruby/test_rand.rb
+++ w/test/ruby/test_rand.rb
@@ -347,10 +347,15 @@
   end
 
   def assert_random_bytes(r)
+    srand(0)
     assert_equal("", r.bytes(0))
-    assert_equal("\xAC".force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT"), r.bytes(1))
-    assert_equal("/\xAA\xC4\x97u\xA6\x16\xB7\xC0\xCC".force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT"),
-                 r.bytes(10))
+    assert_equal("", Random.bytes(0))
+    x = "\xAC".force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT")
+    assert_equal(x, r.bytes(1))
+    assert_equal(x, Random.bytes(1))
+    x = "/\xAA\xC4\x97u\xA6\x16\xB7\xC0\xCC".force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT")
+    assert_equal(x, r.bytes(10))
+    assert_equal(x, Random.bytes(10))
   end
 
   def test_random_range
```

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Feature #4938: Add Random.bytes [patch]
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4938#change-69852

* Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
* Target version: 
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It could be useful to add a `Random.bytes` method (equivalent to `Random::DEFAULT.bytes`), as per the simple patch attached.




---Files--------------------------------
randombytes.diff (2.19 KB)
randombytes-ruby22.diff (2.38 KB)


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