How to get Readline support in IRB using RVM on Ubuntu 11.10

Question

I have tried everything I can think of to get this to work, to no avail so here I am requesting suggestions on how to debug.

Firstly, runnning Ubuntu 11.10

I

Answer 1

If you are using Bundler then the following might help:

echo "gem 'rb-readline'" >> Gemfile
bundle install