Problems with the rails console, RVM and readline

Question

I\'ve installed rvm as a way of making sure that my local development version of ruby is the same as my server\'s for a particular app i work on (ruby 1.8.7). I\'ve done th

Answer 1

I had a similar problem it was with 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04, but the symptoms were identical. In order to get it to work:

rvm pkg install readline

or prior to RVM version 1.6.32, you need the following command

rvm package install readline

Then:

apt-get install ncurses-dev

And then taking from their instructions at http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/packages/readline/

cd $HOME/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p0/ext/readline
ruby extconf.rb -- --with-readline-dir="$HOME/.rvm/usr"
make install

I had actually done a system rvm install on the server, so I needed to do this:

cd $HOME/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p0/ext/readline
ruby extconf.rb -- --with-readline-dir="/usr/local/rvm/usr"
make install

After that I was able to have full access to the console.