From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T16:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: clear screen

On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Christian wrote:

> Is there a way to clear the terminal screen by using Ruby directly?
> Instead of using system("clear").

Nothing builtin. A lighter approach is to print an ANSI escape  
sequence if your terminal understands it:

   module Screen
     def self.clear
       print "\e[2J\e[f"
     end
   end

-- fxn