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Created February 15, 2012 11:36
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Youtube-style IDs in Ruby
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youtube_style_ids.rb
# courtesy of juliocapote (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485423)
def generate_code(len = 5)
(1..len).map { (("a".."z").to_a + ("A".."Z").to_a + (0..9).to_a)[rand(62)] }.join
end
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