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Answer 1

+5 A:

There is a gem for such user interaction: highline.

password = ask("Password:  ") { |q| q.echo = false }

Or even:

password = ask("Password:  ") { |q| q.echo = "*" }

Konstantin Haase 2010-09-13 09:34:52

sweet! (15chars)

st0le 2010-09-13 09:37:47

Thanks, although thats a rather bloated solution. Think i'll stick with \e[30m to simply make the foreground black.

Andrew Bullock 2010-09-13 09:59:35

What if the user's terminal does not have a black background?

glenn jackman 2010-09-13 10:27:09

its only for an in-house script, so its not an issue :) good to point out for others though

Andrew Bullock 2010-09-13 10:32:04

It will still show up in logs and such.

Konstantin Haase 2010-09-15 12:05:00

Answer 2

+3 A:

If you're on a system with stty:

`stty -echo`
print "Password: "
pw = gets.chomp
`stty echo`
puts ""

glenn jackman 2010-09-13 10:31:49

Ruby $stdin.gets without showing chars on screen