From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-08-27T03:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: irb error on startup


On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:37 , Pravin Kumar wrote:

> I still haven't solved the problem, but I noticed that when I type in
> the full path to irb at the shell prompt, /usr/bin/irb, I don't have
> this problem. It just starts up fine. If I type "irb" then I get this
> problem.


% which irb

it'll prolly answer /usr/local/bin/irb or somesuch... that means  
you've got multiple installs of ruby on your system and neither has a  
customized suffix (like ruby19 or ruby187). I recommend against that.  
Consider nuking your second install and reinstalling with --suffix  
passed to configure.