Is it possible to ask for a password?

[ritxi]

I'm trying to use thor in an script that asks a password, but I would prefere if it's not shown.

ask("fill your password:", :password => true) would be nice

or ask_password("fill your password")

Thanks in advance!

[josevalim]

Nops, we don't have this feature. last time I checked it was a bit complicated to implement in an OS agnostic way.

[indirect]

If you'd like an example, check out the engineyard gem, which implements this using the highline gem.

[ritxi]

Thanks I know about highline it was just if it was possible with thor directly.

https://gist.github.com/779615

[jacobbednarz]

Possibly a cleaner solution.

cli = HighLine.new
password = cli.ask("Enter your password: ") { |q| q.echo = false }

[diasjorge]

you can do something like:

require 'io/console'
password = $stdin.noecho do
  ask "password"
end

[diasjorge]

Actually for future references if you come from google. With the latest version you can do

ask("What is your password?", :echo => false)