此解决方案为激活代码生成一个易于读取的字符串；我不希望人们把8和B混淆，把1和I混淆，把0和O混淆，把L和1混淆，等等。

# Generates a random string from a set of easily readable characters
def generate_activation_code(size = 6)
  charset = %w{ 2 3 4 6 7 9 A C D E F G H J K M N P Q R T V W X Y Z}
  (0...size).map{ charset.to_a[rand(charset.size)] }.join
end

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

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

要将您的第一句话变成一句话：

(0...8).collect { |n| value  << (65 + rand(25)).chr }.join()

在这里加上我的美分。。。

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

如果您使用的是UNIX，并且仍然必须使用Ruby 1.8（没有SecureRandom）而不使用Rails，那么您也可以使用这个：

random_string = `openssl rand -base64 24`

请注意，这会生成新的shell，这非常慢，只能推荐用于脚本。