assign random password

Question

I currently have in my application the ability for a user to create an account with a username and password and then have an email sent to them.

In order to generate a more secure log in, I wish for a random password to be generated and then in the email sent to the user the password is contained there.

I am just wondering how I would do this. I have a password_hash and salt in my database so it would require having the random string assigned there.

I understand that I would have to have in my model something like

 before_save :assign_password

and then a

def assign_password
     stuff
end

Is this all I would need and it would assign to the password field? what would I include in the def assign_password?

possible duplicate of [Randomly generated password Rails 3.1](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9066245/randomly-generated-password-rails-3-1) — Andrew Grimm, Sep 14 '15 at 08:49

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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def assign_password
  (0..6).map{ ('a'..'z').to_a[rand(26)] }.join
end

Source How to generate a random string in Ruby

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Mar 14 '12 at 18:41

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Don't use this! This doesn't use secure random number generation. – Andrew Grimm Sep 14 '15 at 08:50

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