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

Try printing the audible bell character:

print "\a" 

Answer 2

For Mac OS X:

system('say "beep"') 

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