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Mike Glaz
Mike Glaz

Reputation: 5392

How to compile Ruby with Readline support?

I'm running Linux Mint 15 which is based on Ubuntu 13.10. I installed Ruby with RVM. I'm trying to run Rails and I get the following error:

You're running a version of ruby with no Readline support
Please `gem install rb-readline` or recompile ruby --with-readline.

I tried every suggestion I found here on SO regarding this problem but I still get this error when trying to run rails server. The suggested website for the fix http://beginrescueend.com/packages/readline/ is unavailable.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3290

Answers (2)

Dorian
Dorian

Reputation: 23979

For macOS: https://github.com/guard/guard/wiki/Add-Readline-support-to-Ruby-on-Mac-OS-X

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-readline-dir=`brew --prefix readline` rbenv install 2.3.1

Upvotes: 2

dredozubov
dredozubov

Reputation: 725

This was answered here for ubuntu/rvm combination: How to get Readline support in IRB using RVM on Ubuntu 11.10

I use chruby/ruby-build for the task, with ruby-build it can be done just like that(you can install it even to rvm folder):

export RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-readline-dir=/your/readline/headers/path
ruby-build 2.0.0 ~/.rvm/rubies/

Upvotes: 0

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