How to blink a text with Ruby

Was building a Ruby game recently and wanted to add a small animation on the console. Then i thought of blinking.
The process of blinking is as follows ;

• print a text on screen;
• delete that text after some seconds;
• Repeat the above two processes in a loop, and the effect is blink. (see code bellow):

msg = 'game over!!!'        #<---message to be printed
5.times do                  #<----- loops 5 times
      print "\r#{msg}"  
      sleep 0.5                 #<----message stays for 0.5 seconds
      print "\r #{' ' * msg.size}\r"   #<-----wiping screen
      sleep 0.5
end
puts msg  #<------optional

You can save this code in a file blink.rb and run the file in your terminal to see results with commands ruby blink.rb (Ruby must be installed)

N.B
“\r” option is very important, it makes the text to always be printed in the start of the console (demonstration below):

1- print "first"; print "second" <-- shows "firstsecond" on console
2- print "\rfirst"; print "\rsecond" <-- shows "second" on console

First line prints “first”, then “second” just immediately
Second line prints “first”, returns cursor to start of line (wiping effect), then prints “second”.