From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T14:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to md5 a string?

On Mar 29, 11:18 pm, "Chris Shea" <cms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 fromhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/Utils/md5_hashing.html
>
> Can you give a more detailed description of what you're experiencing?
>
> Chris

Oh hell, while I'm at it:

~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
~$ 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"

--

chris[~]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i686-linux]
chris[~]$ 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"