How Do You Clear The IRB Console?

Question

How do you clear the IRB console screen?

Answer 1

On Mac OS X or Linux you can use Ctrl + L to clear the IRB screen.

Answer 2

throw this inside %userprofile%.irbrc and you're good

def cls
  system('cls')
end

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Answer 3

on *nix boxes

`clear`

on Windows, I don't think there is a good solution.

EDIT:

Interesting:

system 'cls' #works,
`cls` does not.

Answer 4

The backtick operator captures the output of the command and returns it

s = `cls`
puts s

would work better, I guess.