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.

Jeremy_Ruten_813 · Answer

Try printing the audible bell character:

print "\a"

Chris_Hynes_8037 · Answer

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

To install:

gem install win32-sound

Then in Ruby:

require 'win32/sound'
include Win32
...
Sound.beep(100, 500)

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

puts 7.chr