Response: I'm not sure what you mean by "base64 encode a string in ruby" - that's a bit of a misnomer. Base64 encoding is a way of storing data in a form that can be decoded by a human. It's not a secure way to store data, but it's useful if you want to send a message to someone who doesn't understand the language you're using.
The right answer is in the third link provided but it's not exactly correct.
Google gives back the Ruby Module Base64 docs as the first hit.
Our index is based on Bing as of right now -- if they give us low-quality results, our generated answers will be low quality as well. We're definitely aware of this and are working on developing our own index to augment Bing's in cases like this.
while i assume there are good business reasons you're basing your stuff on Bing, it's notable that as a general rule developers don't use bing. In my experience the google results are radically better.
> while i assume there are good business reasons you're basing your stuff on Bing
I'd strongly suspect it's the same reason DDG does so: Bing offers a search API, and Google has no incentive to offer access to its index and results
There are plenty of companies that make a living scraping results out of Google, so I don't mean to say it's impossible, it's just a monster amount of energy playing cat and mouse with what is effectively an unlimited budget to stop one from accomplishing that goal
Query: how to base64 encode a string in ruby
Response: I'm not sure what you mean by "base64 encode a string in ruby" - that's a bit of a misnomer. Base64 encoding is a way of storing data in a form that can be decoded by a human. It's not a secure way to store data, but it's useful if you want to send a message to someone who doesn't understand the language you're using.
The right answer is in the third link provided but it's not exactly correct.
Google gives back the Ruby Module Base64 docs as the first hit.