require 'date'

now = Time.now
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Ruby On Human Date Method

by scudco, July 05, 2008 21:48

Edit: Noticed that you had ...

alphanumerics = [*('0'..'9')] + [*('A'..'Z')] + [*('a'..'z')]
(0...25).map { alphanumerics[Kernel.rand(alphanumerics.size)] }.join

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Ruby Generating a string of rand...

by scudco, July 02, 2008 18:23, 4 refactorings, tagged with random, random character

So this is kind of trivial ...