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Modules: Digest

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#Digest(name) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

Digest(name) -> digest_subclass

Returns a Digest subclass by name in a thread-safe manner even when on-demand loading is involved.

require 'digest'

Digest("MD5")
# => Digest::MD5

Digest(:SHA256)
# => Digest::SHA256

Digest(:Foo)
# => LoadError: library not found for class Digest::Foo -- digest/foo



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# File 'lib/digest.rb', line 95

def Digest(name)
  const = name.to_sym
  Digest::REQUIRE_MUTEX.synchronize {
    # Ignore autoload's because it is void when we have #const_missing
    Digest.const_missing(const)
  }
rescue LoadError
  # Constants do not necessarily rely on digest/*.
  if Digest.const_defined?(const)
    Digest.const_get(const)
  else
    raise
  end
end