From: Dennis Ranke <dennis.ranke@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T03:39:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculate the md5 hash of a string

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:25:06 +0100, Dirk Einecke <dirk.einecke@gmx.de> 
wrote:

> How can I calculate the md5 hash of a string (like in PHP - 
> http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php)? I can't find any 
> helpfull documentation about this problem.

I can't find any (real) documentation, either, but:

irb(main):001:0> require 'digest/md5'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Digest::MD5.new('apple') == 
'1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f'
=> true

HTH

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