What is the default random: argument in Ruby's Array#shuffle-CodePudding

The documentation for Array#shuffle states:

shuffle(random: rng) → new_ary

The optional rng argument will be used as the random number generator.
a.shuffle(random: Random.new(1))  #=> [1, 3, 2]

If I don't supply the optional random argument, what is used for it?

Equivalently, if I call a.shuffle(random: rng), what does rng need to be to make it the same as just a.shuffle?

CodePudding user response：

It's right in the signature, shuffle(random: Random). That says the default value for random is the Random Class object.

The class method Random.rand provides the base functionality of Kernel.rand along with better handling of floating point values. These are both interfaces to the Ruby system PRNG.