From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T01:55:39+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB is dying on me

Greg Donald wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:
>> > Sounds like your missing readline support.
>>
>> Sorry, but, I don't know what that is. Is that a gem I need to install?
> 
> Readline is the library that makes your irb behave more like a modern
> shell.  I added readline support to my Ruby when I compiled it.
> 
> --with-readline-dir=/usr/local

OK. Well, I'm on Windows and I didn't compile anything. Ruby's been 
"out-of-the-box" for me for almost a year now and it's worked 
beautifully. I'll look into it further. Thanks.
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