beep

Currently, beep is a very simple wrapper around the beep utility of Linux. It handles a small subset of the functionality provided by the utility.

Installing beep

Install beep (the utility) using your package management app of choice. If you type in ‘beep` at the command prompt, you should be rewarded with, well, pretty much just a beep. Note: In some recent Ubuntu versions, the pcspkr module is blacklisted, so you will need to comment out the relevant line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklistif you want the pcspkr permanently enabled (it can be quite annoying) or manually load it using `sudo modprobe pcspkr`

And then, install the gem.

gem install beep

Usage

In your Ruby code:

require 'beep'

Issuing the default beep

Beep::Sound.generate

Passing through a sequence of beeps

sounds = [
  {:frequency => 100, :duration => 200, :pause => 300},
  {:frequency => 400, :duration => 500, :pause => 600},
  {:frequency => 700, :duration => 800, :pause => 900},
]

Beep::Sound.generate(sounds)

The duration and pause sounds are in milliseconds. Frequency is in MHz.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests