How can I clear the terminal in Ruby?

Question

I would like to know to how to do in Ruby what I can do with system(\"clear\") in C. I wrote a program like

puts \"amit\"
system(\"clear\")
         


        

Answer 1

This should cover windows and OSX/Linux terminals.

def method_name
   puts "amit"
   if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win32|win64|\.NET|windows|cygwin|mingw32/i
      system('cls')
    else
      system('clear')
   end
end
method_name