From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-04-10T06:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Hide "gets" method output, for passwords..

Brian Wallace wrote:
> HI All,
> 
>  I'm trying to find a platform independent way of hiding the STDOUT when a
> password is being entered via the gets method...
> I was able to hide all output in Linux by using Termios , but as you know
> this doesn't work on Windows..
> 
> What would be nice , is a simple implementation of asterisks replacing the
> actual characters displayed to STDOUT ...
> 
> Does anyone know if this is possible in Ruby?
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
> draygen
> 

I think Highline will do this: http://highline.rubyforge.org

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