An implementation of Douglas Crockfords Base32-Encoding in Ruby

see http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html

Installation

$ gem install base32-crockford

Changes

0.2.0 - added optional checksum
0.1.0 - rename gem to base32-crockford
0.0.2 - ruby 1.9 compatibility
0.0.1 - initial release

Usage

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'base32/crockford'

Base32::Crockford.encode(1234)                            # => "16J"
Base32::Crockford.encode(100**10, :split=>5, :length=>15) # => "02PQH-TY5NH-H0000"
Base32::Crockford.decode("2pqh-ty5nh-hoooo")              # => 10**100
Base32::Crockford.encode(1234, checksum: true)            # => "16JD"
Base32::Crockford.decode("16JD", checksum: true)          # => 1234