Hide "gets" method output, for passwords..

[Brian Wallace]

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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