From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T02:28:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - --readline



On Feb 1, 5:04 pm, "Michael R." <randalls...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot find a resolution to this problem and figured someone here
> probably can tell me what I need to do to fix it; there are so many
> intelligent, learned and helpful people here. (Thanks in advance.)
>
> I've searched Google and run the MacOS Software Updates, (I'm on a newly
> purchased system, recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard). I
> also reinstalled Xcode. Then I updated all my gems (though I'm not sure
> they all worked right -- should I install them as root or myself?). I'm
> a newbie to Ruby and to the Mac, (though I've run many other Unix
> systems), so I'm not sure I've checked everything... (apparently not).
>
> Any call to 'gets' results in the error, below, (I also pasted version
> info)
>
> $ irb --simple-prompt>> person = gets
>
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - --readline
>   from (irb):1:in `gets'
>   from (irb):1
>
> >> ^D
>
> (MacOS X version 10.6.2)
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
>
> $ pwd
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems
>
> $ ls
> RedCloth-4.2.2    aws-2.1.12    highline-1.5.1    net-ssh-2.0.17
> rubygems-update-1.3.5
> actionmailer-2.3.5  capistrano-2.5.10  hpricot-0.8.2
> net-ssh-gateway-1.0.1  sqlite3-ruby-1.2.5
> actionpack-2.3.5  dnssd-1.3.1    http_connection-1.3.0  rack-1.0.1
> uuidtools-2.1.1
> activerecord-2.3.5  fastercsv-1.5.1    libxml-ruby-1.1.3  rails-2.3.5
> xmpp4r-0.5
> activeresource-2.3.5  fastthread-1.0.7  mysql-2.8.1    rake-0.8.7
> activesupport-2.3.5  fcgi-0.8.8    net-scp-1.0.2    rest-client-1.0.4
> acts_as_ferret-0.4.4  git-1.2.5    net-sftp-2.0.4    ruby-openid-2.1.7
>
> Tusen takk (1000 thanks),
> 7thWAP

If all else fails, there's rb-readline.

gem install rdp-rb-readline

Regards,

Dan