From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-01-23T23:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: What these lines of code do?

On Jan 23, 2008 3:05 PM, MohsinHijazee <mohsinhijazee@gmail.com> wrote:
> # What this is doing? I mean Digest.new('sha1') returns what?
>   digest = OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('sha1')
>
> # Is it so that we say HMAC.digest to use the SHA1 algorithm?
>   hmac = OpenSSL::HMAC.digest(digest, SECRET_KEY, uri)
>
> # What the chomp method does?
>   signature = Base64.encode64(hmac).chomp
>
> Asking these questions as they are not documented in the Ruby
> documentation.
>
> Regards,
> Mohsin

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html