From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T14:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How to md5 a string?

On Mar 29, 11:06 pm, Bontina Chen <abonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Shea wrote:
> > On Mar 29, 9:13 pm, Bontina Chen <abonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> --
> >> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> > It might be informative to see some examples what you're getting with
> > Digest/MD5 vs other tools.  I've used Digest/MD5 with great success on
> > Windows.
>
> > If what you're doing is getting the MD5 of a file, opening it for
> > reading in binary mode is done like so:
>
> > File.new('filename','rb')
>
> > Chris
>
> s="http://pandora.com"
> Digest::MD5.hexdigest(s)
>
> Abon
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'digest/md5'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> s = "http://pandora.com"
=> "http://pandora.com"
irb(main):003:0> Digest::MD5.hexdigest(s)
=> "9e565e1adf52310555fa2dc1391ded64"

--

mvb:~ cms$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.9.1]
mvb:~ cms$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'digest/md5'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> s = "http://pandora.com"
=> "http://pandora.com"
irb(main):003:0> Digest::MD5.hexdigest(s)
=> "9e565e1adf52310555fa2dc1391ded64"

--

I get the same result from http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/Utils/md5_hashing.html

Can you give a more detailed description of what you're experiencing?

Chris