Creating a thread-safe temporary file name

Question

When using Tempfile Ruby is creating a file with a thread-safe and inter-process-safe name. I only need a file name in that way.

I was wondering if ther

Answer 1

Since you only need the filename, what about using the SecureRandom for that:

require 'securerandom'

filename =  "#{SecureRandom.hex(6)}.png" #=> "0f04dd94addf.png"

You can also use SecureRandom.alphanumeric