rails/rails — Issue #3263: console doesn't work without ruby src
Author: CloudMarc
Created: 2011-10-09 01:58:03+00:00
State: open

Please make this a priority, and more generally, please fix everything broken that was working just fine before rails 3.

Simply going to my rails project directory and typing "rails console" should open up a console - this is an incredibly important and essential method of debugging and problem solving. So I was very surprised to see that this was not working on ubuntu w/ rails 3, and that I must install ruby from source (even though every thing else is working fine) in order to fix this:

http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14452

ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [i686-linux]

Rails 3.1.1

Linux ip-10-242-201-42 2.6.38-8-virtual #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 07:04:38 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

# rails console
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/completion.rb:9:in `require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError)