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

Answer 1

Starting from Ruby version 2.3.0 you can use the IO#getpass method like this:

require 'io/console'
password = STDIN.getpass("Password:")

See the getpass method in the Standard Library Documentation.