From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T03:49:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Passwords

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, John Chant <john.chant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to read a password without echoing the
> characters typed. I've looked at getc but this echos the character (as a
> number).

The Ruby-Password library supports this.  Check it out:
http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-password.shtml

It's pretty simple:

  Password.get( "Your prompt: " )

Ben