From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T20:59:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Broken Console

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On 5/4/06, Damien Timewell <mail@damientimewell.com> wrote:
>
> I just tried to boot up my app's console and it seems either something
> is broken or I've done something wrong?
>
> Here's what I'm doing..
>
> First i cd to my project then run the command 'script/console
> development' only to get the following error:
>
> Loading development environment.
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require': No such file to
> load -- readline (LoadError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:218:in `require'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:218:in `load_modules'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:216:in `each'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:216:in `load_modules'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start'
>         from /usr/bin/irb:13
>
> Does anyone know what's going wrong and what could be done to fix it?


Looks like you are missing the readline library.

My Debian box has this package in Apt:
libreadline-ruby1.8 - Readline interface for Ruby 1.8

The Windows installer seems to include readline by default.


L

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