I just recompiled Ruby and I'm seeing a lot of issues already.

IRb is the first crisis I really need to tackle.  Are these error  
messages making sense to anyone who can give me some clues?

Should I need to reinstall my gems, like Rails?

Neo:~/Desktop/ruby-1.8.3$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]
Neo:~/Desktop/ruby-1.8.3$ irb
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _rl_filename_completion_function
   Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.2.0/ 
readline.bundle
   Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap
Neo:~/Desktop/ruby-1.8.3$ rails
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/ 
active_support/clean_logger.rb:13:in `remove_const': constant  
Logger::Format not defined (NameError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/ 
lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb:13
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ 
custom_require.rb:21:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/ 
lib/active_support.rb:31
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ 
custom_require.rb:21:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.11.1/ 
lib/active_record.rb:29
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ 
custom_require.rb:21:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:182:in  
`activate'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in  
`activate'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:167:in  
`activate'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:166:in  
`activate'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in  
`require_gem_with_options'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in  
`require_gem'
         from /usr/local/bin/rails:17

Thanks for any advice.

James Edward Gray II