Module ActiveSupport::Base64
In: lib/active_support/base64.rb

Base64 provides utility methods for encoding and de-coding binary data using a base 64 representation. A base 64 representation of binary data consists entirely of printable US-ASCII characters. The Base64 module is included in Ruby 1.8, but has been removed in Ruby 1.9.

Methods

decode64   encode64  

Public Class methods

Decodes a base 64 encoded string to its original representation.

 ActiveSupport::Base64.decode64("T3JpZ2luYWwgdW5lbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==")
 # => "Original unencoded string"

Encodes a string to its base 64 representation. Each 60 characters of output is separated by a newline character.

 ActiveSupport::Base64.encode64("Original unencoded string")
 # => "T3JpZ2luYWwgdW5lbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==\n"

[Validate]