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[Rails] Good Random Positive Integer
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Written by Frank Rietta
Tonight I needed a quick way to generate a good pseudo random number. The following statement in Ruby will generate a positive integer between 0 and the maximum integer supported on the system.
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SecureRandom.random_number((2**(0.size*8-2)-1))
Running that 10 times as a test on my system returned:
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