Can't see irb prompt when running rails console

Question

I am new to Ruby on Rails and currently following this guide https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

I am at the part where I need to run the rails console command to get the irb prompt, but instead I only get this weird Switch to inspect mode. statement. The image is in a link because i'm not allowed to embed them yet.

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Thanks for the help in advance!

Answer 1

Check your rb-readline gem and see weather updating it will solve the problem. Some versions of this gem have been known to cause this issue