How do I compile Readline support into Ruby

Question

My version of ruby was compiled with editline (on os x) and I miss the features of readline in irb.

How do I recompile ruby with readline support?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '09 at 07:11

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or if you have downloaded the ruby sources earlier and built it by hand,

Go to the ext/readline folder of your ruby source tree
Type ruby extconf.rb and then run the make && make install procedure for ruby.

answered Nov 23 '09 at 07:11

Tamas Mezei

Check out http://bogojoker.com/readline/ for more information on readline in general. – Jonathan R. Wallace Apr 15 '10 at 18:52
Notably the 2nd set requires you to have ruby installed, which may mean compiling and installing ruby once without readline, only to recompile and reinstall again it *with* readline. Recursive dependencies suck. – Joe Atzberger Jan 14 '13 at 21:35

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 16 '12 at 01:54

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edited Jun 16 '12 at 01:54

Adrian Toman

answered Jan 27 '10 at 05:00

rogerdpack

google's first result for "pure ruby readline" was the right place. – rogerdpack Jan 05 '12 at 00:36

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