From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-01T00:21:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Windows:How does one not echo keyboard input?

On Dec 30, 2006, at 11:56 PM, Jason Mayer wrote:

> 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?")

Or just:

require "rubygems"
require "highline/import"

ask("Password:  ") { |q| q.echo = false }

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James Edward Gray II