Curt Hibbs wrote:

>>Or the ~/.irbrc that Raph offered will work as well.
> Great... this worked!

Didn't work for me though. I'm on a German keyboard layout and have to 
use ctrl-alt-7 to get a {. This stops working as soon as I use readline 
for irb.

I also have a Cygwin-bash available and in the shell itself I can still 
type brackets.

Is there any way to fix that? If yes it should also be included into the 
one-click installer.

Regards,
Florian Gross