What is the easiest way I can create a 'beep' sound from a Ruby program?

Question

I'm making a small ruby command line script and I wanted to know what the simplest way to have the program emit a beep is.

Answer 1

For windows, use the win32-sound library - Adding Sound to Your Ruby Apps.

You'd do something like:

Sound.beep(100, 500)

For non windows, looks like this could work: How to make beep sounds?

puts 7.chr

Answer 2

Try printing the audible bell character:

print "\a"