From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2004-03-27T05:59:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting up arrow to work in irb on OSX

ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message news:<c3vtc00cqf@enews4.newsguy.com>...
> How do you get the up arrow to give prior commands in irb on OSX?
> 
> When I try to use the up arrow I just get garbage characters...
> 
> 
> Phil

Ya needs readline. Rich Kilmer wrote a great step-by-step about how to do this:

http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/10/building_ruby_1.html