How to generate a random string in ruby

Just ran into this while googling for random string generation in ruby. This is pretty awesome:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/SecureRandom.html

Also, thanks to divisionoftigers for posting it on stackoverflow here

Let me put it directly here instead:

require 'active_support/secure_random'
random_string = ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(16)