password.rb

# I stole Giles Bowkett's Password Gem's password generator method.
# Since I don't trust a plaintext file in my home dir for secrecy, 
# but I do like making strong passwords

## USAGE: Fire up irb and paste this badboy in. Then call generate or generate(140) etc.


def generate(length = 23)
  # how to make this elegant?
  password = ""
  possible = %w{0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a b c d e f g h i j k l M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ! $ # @ & * . ' =}
  length.times {password << possible[rand(possible.size)]}
  password
end

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