From: Marnen Laibow-Koser Date: 2010-02-03T03:29:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Is readline really broken in MacOS Snow Leopard!?!?! TomTom III wrote: > Jose Hales-Garcia wrote: >> On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:15 PM, TomTom III wrote: >> >>> Before I go to the trouble of removing Ruby and downloading, then >>> building Ruby from source >> >> There's no need to remove the vendor version since, by default, an >> installation of Ruby will go in /usr/local. You just need to put >> /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH variable to call your >> custom version by default. But, you should be including full paths to >> commands in your scripts anyway, for security and sanity reasons. >> >> Jose >> ....................................................... >> Jose Hales-Garcia >> UCLA Department of Statistics >> jose@stat.ucla.edu > > Yes, I know 10.6 is Snow Leopard, and 1.8.7 came with it. I am wondering > if something I installed afterward could have broken it? I've installed > a few add-ons via github, but figured they have been well tried. > > Maybe I should removed the development package and reinstall? Or is > there a place I can review what was installed and when, so I could > remove the stuff I've added instead? > > Thanks for all the replies. Just follow the instructions at http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/03/irb-readline . Best, --  Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.