From: Jason Mayer <slamboy@...>
Date: 2006-12-31T14:56:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Windows:How does one not echo keyboard input?

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On 12/30/06, Jacob, Raymond A Jr <raymond.jacob@navy.mil> wrote:
>
> Firstly,   I appologize if this question has already been answered but I
> could not figure out the
> correct way to word my search on google to find anything relevant. I am
> running Ruby 1.8.2-15
> on windows XP. I used the one-click version.
> I am trying to write a script that will prompt a user for a password and
> not echo the characters back to screen.
> Is this possible in the dos command  window? If so then please give me a
> reference else is there an alternative
> such as using TK?
>
> thank you,
> raymond
>
>
page 791 and 792 of the ruby cookbook covers this.

require 'rubygems'
require 'highline/import'

def get_password(prompt='Password: ')
  ask(prompt) { |q| q.echo = false}
end

get_password("What's your password?")

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