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Is there some ready-made algorithm to generate invitation code by ruby? I can think at first MD5, but its output is too long for 32, so I want the output length is less than 16.
Thank you in advance.
Assuming you are storing the code (otherwise, what’s the point?) just make a random string, and check to see if it exists before saving, and try a new string if it does. No major algorithm needed.