Comments on Tim, the Enchanter: Getting ruby to use readline instead of libedit

Thanks! That helped me out quite a bit.

2011-01-14T06:45:02.180-08:00

Thanks! That helped me out quite a bit.

Does your "update3 : block threads/signals&qu...

2010-10-04T06:14:06.405-07:00

Does your "update3 : block threads/signals" mean that it is best NOT to use readline, or look for a ure ruby readline? I would think so. Is there a way to test if this problem is occurring in my environment?

pure ruby readline is another option I've used...

2010-05-03T09:02:17.312-07:00

pure ruby readline is another option I've used successfully in the past.

Thanks for the great post--worked like a charm. I ...

2010-02-27T19:11:31.672-08:00

Thanks for the great post--worked like a charm. I had compiled my own ruby to get readline working, but this makes that overkill.

Been using brew for some time now. Don't know ...

2010-02-17T08:50:57.168-08:00

Been using brew for some time now. Don't know why it didn't occur to me to use it to install readline :P

I had to run 'brew link readline' to get it to link it so /usr/local/include/readline existed, though that's not entirely necessary as I can signal build scripts to find it elsewhere.

I have swithed from macports to homebrew because I...

2010-02-01T10:15:07.720-08:00

I have swithed from macports to homebrew because I like how it works better. It has readline. I just did brew install readline and got 6.0. Nice post!

http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew