Ruby clear screen

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How can I clear the terminal in Ruby?

How to clear the terminal screen in ruby?

puts "hello, what's your name?"
input = gets.chomp
<<clearscreen>>
puts "nice to meet you, #{input}"

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Not sure what you're asking exactly, but there are different ways to clear irb / terminal in this post: How Do You Clear The IRB Console?

One that is intersting is

In order to clear the screen just do a

puts "\e[H\e[2J"

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Apr 21 '12 at 17:44

Brett Sanders

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I'n not sure that that's cross platform. – Noufal Ibrahim Apr 21 '12 at 17:50
This is escape sequence. All terminals support it. – SwiftMango Apr 21 '12 at 18:39
Doesn't work with in the DOS box of Win XP. – knut Apr 21 '12 at 21:20
Works in iTerm2 3.0.15 on macOS 10.12.5 (16F73) using Bash 4.4.12(1)-release. – Mateusz Piotrowski Jul 05 '17 at 17:14

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