module `ActiveRecord::SecureToken::ClassMethods`

Public instance methods

`generate_unique_secure_token(length: MINIMUM_TOKEN_LENGTH)`

Source code GitHub

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/secure_token.rb, line 61
def generate_unique_secure_token(length: MINIMUM_TOKEN_LENGTH)
  SecureRandom.base58(length)
end

`has_secure_token(attribute = :token, length: MINIMUM_TOKEN_LENGTH, on: ActiveRecord.generate_secure_token_on)`

Example using has_secure_token

# Schema: User(token:string, auth_token:string)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_token
  has_secure_token :auth_token, length: 36
end

user = User.new
user.save
user.token # => "pX27zsMN2ViQKta1bGfLmVJE"
user.auth_token # => "tU9bLuZseefXQ4yQxQo8wjtBvsAfPc78os6R"
user.regenerate_token # => true
user.regenerate_auth_token # => true

SecureRandom::base58 is used to generate at minimum a 24-character unique token, so collisions are highly unlikely.

Note that it’s still possible to generate a race condition in the database in the same way that validates_uniqueness_of can. You’re encouraged to add a unique index in the database to deal with this even more unlikely scenario.

Options

:length: Length of the Secure Random, with a minimum of 24 characters. It will default to 24.
:on: The callback when the value is generated. When called with on: :initialize, the value is generated in an after_initialize callback, otherwise the value will be used in a before_ callback. When not specified, :on will use the value of config.active_record.generate_secure_token_on, which defaults to :initialize starting in Rails 7.1.

Source code GitHub

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/secure_token.rb, line 46
def has_secure_token(attribute = :token, length: MINIMUM_TOKEN_LENGTH, on: ActiveRecord.generate_secure_token_on)
  if length < MINIMUM_TOKEN_LENGTH
    raise MinimumLengthError, "Token requires a minimum length of #{MINIMUM_TOKEN_LENGTH} characters."
  end

  # Load securerandom only when has_secure_token is used.
  require "active_support/core_ext/securerandom"
  define_method("regenerate_#{attribute}") { update! attribute => self.class.generate_unique_secure_token(length: length) }
  set_callback on, on == :initialize ? :after : :before do
    if new_record? && !query_attribute(attribute)
      send("#{attribute}=", self.class.generate_unique_secure_token(length: length))
    end
  end
end

Definition files

activerecord/lib/active_record/secure_token.rb

module ActiveRecord::SecureToken::ClassMethods