From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T06:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - --readline

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Michael R. <randallsata@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

It appears that somewhere along the line you have a program invoking
another program with the argument --readline, but for some reason it's
interpreting that as a filename instead of a switch. I'm not sure
where that is happening, though.