Hide "gets" method output, for passwords

Ruby
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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

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On Apr 9, 3:22 pm, Brian W. [email protected] wrote:

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?

I’m not sure because I haven’t done this sort of thing myself, but I
imagine the highline gem is a good place to look.

http://highline.rubyforge.org/

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Brian W. wrote:

Does anyone know if this is possible in Ruby?

Thanks,

draygen

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