MySQL ENCRYPT function in Ruby (for Rails)

Zhe backend system required that the password column used the MySQL ENCRYPT function. Since I didn't wanted to hack rails to much, I just aded the required code into the rails model directly - 5 minutes work, voila.

When the password get's assigned, it is automatically "MySQL encrypted". Here's ther code for reference:

  def password=(pw)
    self[:password] = mysql_encrypt(pw)
  end  
  
  private
  def mysql_encrypt(pw)
    salt = [Array.new(6){rand(256).chr}.join].pack("m").chomp
    return pw.crypt(salt)
  end