From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T02:33:24+09:00
Subject: Re: irb configure options

On Sep 28, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Mark Hubbart wrote:

> Mac OS X usually has a readline library installed; and if it is 
> installed, it's not in a standard place; so Ruby's readline support 
> quietly fails to compile. I know you can download a precompiled 
> readline.bundle [1], which you can just drop in, or you can download 
> gnu readline to compile against.

GNU readline did the trick for me and I now have tab completion is irb. 
  Thanks much.

James Edward Gray II