Methods

Instance Public methods

generate_unique_secure_token()

📝 Source code 
# File activerecord/lib/active_record/secure_token.rb, line 35
      def generate_unique_secure_token
        SecureRandom.base58(24)
      end
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has_secure_token(attribute = :token)

Example using has_secure_token

# Schema: User(token:string, auth_token:string)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_token
  has_secure_token :auth_token
end

user = User.new
user.save
user.token # => "pX27zsMN2ViQKta1bGfLmVJE"
user.auth_token # => "77TMHrHJFvFDwodq8w7Ev2m7"
user.regenerate_token # => true
user.regenerate_auth_token # => true

SecureRandom::base58 is used to generate the 24-character unique token, so collisions are highly unlikely.

Note that it's still possible to generate a race condition in the database in the same way that validates_uniqueness_of can. You're encouraged to add a unique index in the database to deal with this even more unlikely scenario.

📝 Source code 
# File activerecord/lib/active_record/secure_token.rb, line 28
      def has_secure_token(attribute = :token)
        # Load securerandom only when has_secure_token is used.
        require "active_support/core_ext/securerandom"
        define_method("regenerate_#{attribute}") { update! attribute => self.class.generate_unique_secure_token }
        before_create { send("#{attribute}=", self.class.generate_unique_secure_token) unless send("#{attribute}?") }
      end
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