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Posted by Cyrus Ghazanfar
Cyrus Ghazanfar
4,549 Points

Problem with IRB "Readline was unable to be required"

Hello everyone,

I am following the Ruby track right now. I've explored irb for a bit now but there is something that bothers me each time i switch to IRB in the terminal. this is what i get $ irb

Readline was unable to be required, if you need completion or history install readline then reinstall the ruby. You may follow 'rvm notes' for dependencies and/or read the docs page https://rvm.io/packages/readline/ . Be sure you 'rvm remove X ; rvm install X' to re-compile your ruby with readline support after obtaining the readline libraries.

Could you please help me figure out what is wrong...

Thank you very much!

1 Answer

Oscar Morrison
Oscar Morrison
11,211 Points
Oscar Morrison
Oscar Morrison
11,211 Points

Hi Cyrus, Try rvm requirements rvm pkg install readline rvm reinstall 2.1.1 (or whatever your version is)