How to hide password input from terminal in ruby script

Question

I am new to ruby. I need to receive password as an input through gets command.

How do I hide the password input typed in the terminal, during gets call

Answer 1

There is a library called highline which works like this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'highline/import'

password = ask("Enter password: ") { |q| q.echo = false }
# do stuff with password

Answer 2

this is another alternative.