Using salt to securely store password

Question

Hey everybody I just started reading into usage salt to stroe passwords securely.
I implemented an example here: https://code.sololearn.com/cKSRwPl8SH6h/#rb

Is this a reasonable way to do this? I would like to use this in a production system and have to make sure I understand this technique correct before using it...
Thank you guys in advance!

Answer 1

I am not a Rubi coder, however based on the fact that salt is a string made of random characters which are appended to the password string before applying a one-way hash function to it in order to prevent dictionary attacks (attacks in which a lot of common passwords are tested), your code's logic seems OK.

Thus,