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 Mac OS X:

system('say "beep"')

Conventional print "\a" didn't always work by some reason for me (MBA, 10.7.4)