ruby: print in the same line

I’ve always tried to make my scripts’ responses prettier and less crowded, and I came across something like the following piece of code, that helped me a lot lately #!/usr/bin/env ruby STDOUT.sync = true bars = ['/','-','\\','|'] i=1 while i do print "\rrunning #{bars[i%4]}" i += 1 sleep 1 end trap("INT") { print "\n\n" exit } If you like to see updates without flooding your terminal screen, this is...