On Tuesday 19 July 2005 07:31, daniel / themissingyard.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way I can turn echo off for the console from Ruby, in a
> platform independent manner, or otherwise mask entered characters?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jogloran

Use Highline, it does the job very well. Download it from Rubyforge
or install with rubygems:
    % gem install highline

-- 
Stefan