From: James Gray Date: 2009-08-12T02:24:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Readline not working with Ruby On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Stewart wrote: > On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, James Gray wrote: >> On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Stewart wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Aug 11, 4:27 pm, Brian Candler 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> And do the editing keys now work as expected? James Edward Gray II