Hide "gets" method output, for passwords

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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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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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On Apr 9, 3:22 pm, Brian Wallace <drayge...@gmail.com> 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?

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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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