A basic, console twitter status update script

update_status.rb

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'highline/import'
require 'twitter'

user = ask("Enter your twitter username:") {|q| q.echo = 'x'}
passwd = ask("Enter your twitter password:") {|q| q.echo = 'x'}
http_auth = Twitter::HTTPAuth.new user, passwd
client = Twitter::Base.new(http_auth)
puts 'connected to twitter'
exit = 'n'

while exit == 'n' || exit == 'no'
  puts "Update status:"
  message = gets.chomp
  client.update message
  puts "Twitter status updated successfully"
  puts 'Do you want to exit? [Yn]'
  exit = gets.chomp.downcase
end