From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T00:55:17+09:00
Subject: Re: ripl - an irb alternative - 0.3.0 released

Hello

There is a serious issue with ripl.

$ ripl
Bond Error: Failed to load readline_line_buffer. Ensure that it exists
and was built correctly.
>> f=File.open "/scratch/junk"
=> #<File:/scratch/junk>
>> f.read
"<11MB of junk in octal notation with no way to terminate the output>"

with irb you can press ^C to abort printing the output.

Of course, you can write

>> f.read && true
=> true

or

>> buf = f.read ; buf[0..10]
=> "\251\245T\344\341m\223{\351\2524"

but that's something you should not be *required* to do to use ripl.

Thanks

Michal