From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T13:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Hiding user input

Hi,

At Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:24:00 +0900,
Ari Brown wrote in [ruby-talk:262575]:
> Without Highline!!!!!!!!
> Sorry, James, I love the library, but I need this to work over IO.

Highline doesn't work over IO?

> How can I hide user input (as they type) without highline? Am I able  
> to use blocks after gets()?
> I'm hoping I can do something like this:
> 
> name = gets.chomp {|let| let.echo = false}

  require 'io/console'
  name = STDIN.noecho {|i| i.gets}.chomp

io/console <http://www.rubyist.net/~nobu/ruby/io-console.tar.bz2>
would work on the platforms support termios, termio or sgtty, and
Win32.

-- 
Nobu Nakada