Clear ruby irb console in Windows

There’s no neat and nice way of clearing the irb console as it seems.

There is a way however.

Put the following in a file called utilities.rb.

module Utilities
  def cls
    system 'cls'
  end
end

Then put the following lines into the project where you want to clear the irb console.

require_relative 'utilities.rb'

include Utilities

and use the cls function thus

Utilities.cls

Note: This only works on Windows machines.

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