From: Stewart <stewart.matheson@...>
Date: 2009-08-12T01:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Readline not working with Ruby

On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, James Gray <ja...@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Stewart wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Aug 11, 4:27 pm, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Stewart wrote:
> >>> Hey I compiled ruby with readline support. However when i go to  
> >>> IRB i
> >>> just get jibbrish when i press the up arrow on my keyboard.  Any
> >>> suggestions?
>
> >> You need the readline development libraries installed at the time  
> >> when
> >> you run ./configure. If you're under Linux, the package will be  
> >> called
> >> something like libreadline5-dev (Ubuntu/Debian) or readline-devel
> >> (RedHat or other RPM-based distro)
>
> >> If that's not the problem, then you'll need to be more specific.  
> >> What OS
> >> are you on? What version of ruby are you building? What makes you  
> >> think
> >> you built readline support successfully? Look through
> >> ext/readline/mkmf.log to see why the extension wasn't built, and  
> >> post it
> >> here if you don't understand it.
> >> --
> >> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> > Sorry I should have posted more info
>
> > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.6.0]
>
> > on mac os 10.5
>
> I'm pretty sure it's not even needed on Mac OS 10.5, as it ships with  
> libedit for a compatible replacement.  It won't hurt anything though,  
> of course.
>
> What happens if you start irb like this?
>
>    irb --readline
>
> James Edward Gray II

/usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/readline $ irb --readline
irb(main):001:0>