From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-06-10T01:59:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How to take password from user

On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:19 AM, sujeet kumar wrote:

> Hi
>    I have to take some password from user in a Ruby Program. I want
> that when he type password an echo character like  * prints on screen
> and the program gets the password as string. I am using Ruby function
> "gets" to get password. I don't want password to be seen by others.
>    Suggest me some way.

The HighLine library (http://highline.rubyforge.org/) on RubyForge  
makes this (and more) trivial. Here's an example using that library:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w

require "rubygems"
require "highline/import"

pass = ask("Enter your password:  ") { |q| q.echo = false } # or  
q.echo = "*"
puts "Your password is #{pass}!"

__END__

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II