由3个范围组成的随机字符串的2个解：

(('a'..'z').to_a + ('A'..'Z').to_a + (0..9).to_a).sample(8).join

([*(48..57),*(65..90),*(97..122)]).sample(8).collect(&:chr)*""

每个范围中的一个字符。

如果您需要每个范围中至少一个字符，例如创建一个包含一个大写字母、一个小写字母和一个数字的随机密码，可以执行以下操作：

( ('a'..'z').to_a.sample(8) + ('A'..'Z').to_a.sample(8) + (0..9).to_a.sample(8) ).shuffle.join 
#=> "Kc5zOGtM0H796QgPp8u2Sxo1"

以下内容对我很有用

def generate_random_password(min_length, max_length)
    length = SecureRandom.random_number(max_length - min_length) + min_length
    character_sets = [ 
      ('a'..'z').to_a,
      ('A'..'Z').to_a,
      ('0'..'9').to_a,
      "~!@^&*()_-+=[]|:;<,>.?".split('')
    ]   
    retval = []
    #   
    # Add one character from each set
    #   
    character_sets.each do |character_set|
      character = character_set[SecureRandom.random_number(character_set.count)]
      retval.push character
    end 
    #   
    # Fill the rest of the password with a random character from a random set
    #   
    i = character_sets.count - 1 
    while i < length
      character_set = character_sets[SecureRandom.random_number(character_sets.count)]
      character = character_set[SecureRandom.random_number(character_set.count)]
      retval.push character
      i += 1
    end
    retval.shuffle.join
  end

在这里加上我的美分。。。

def random_string(length = 8)
  rand(32**length).to_s(32)
end

我想，到目前为止，我最喜欢雷达的回答。我会这样做：

CHARS = ('a'..'z').to_a + ('A'..'Z').to_a
def rand_string(length=8)
  s=''
  length.times{ s << CHARS[rand(CHARS.length)] }
  s
end

为什么不使用SecureRandom？

require 'securerandom'
random_string = SecureRandom.hex

# outputs: 5b5cd0da3121fc53b4bc84d0c8af2e81 (i.e. 32 chars of 0..9, a..f)

SecureRandom还具有以下方法：

基础64随机字节（_B）随机编号

参见：http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/securerandom/rdoc/SecureRandom.html

require 'sha1'
srand
seed = "--#{rand(10000)}--#{Time.now}--"
Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(seed)[0,8]