Encrypted passwords and fixtures

Rails
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maybe i’m not seeing the forest through the trees, but how might i go
about
representing encrypted passwords in fixtures? should i just encrypt
them at
the CL copy/paste into the fixture? Not sure if there’s a ‘proper’ way
to
do this.

Thanks.

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On 12/11/05, Chris H. [email protected] wrote:

maybe i’m not seeing the forest through the trees, but how might i go about
representing encrypted passwords in fixtures? should i just encrypt them at
the CL copy/paste into the fixture? Not sure if there’s a ‘proper’ way to
do this.

You can include eRb tags in your YAML fixture files, so you can
actually do the encryption right in the fixture:

– BEGIN accounts.yml –
<% require ‘sha1’ %>
first:
id: 1
username: user_one
password: <%= SHA1::hexdigest ‘user_one_password’ %>
– END accounts.yml –

Obviously, modify that for whatever encryption scheme you’re using.

–
Regards,
John W.

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