From: 520079130762-0001@... (Michael Neumann)
Date: 2002-12-10T05:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby base64 encoding/decoding

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:22, Emiel van de Laar wrote:
> Fellow Ruby users,
> 
> I'm looking for a Ruby module that handles base64 encoding/decoding. RAA
> doesn't seem to carry one. Perhaps it doesn't exist and someone with
> some spare time could port the PERL version. :)  In my opinion this is
> a fundamental module the Ruby community is missing at the moment.

See String#unpack and Array#pack.

s = [binaryString].pack("m")   # encodes binaryString as base64
s.unpack("m")                  # decodes s


Regards,

  Michael