On Jan 28, 2008 1:11 PM, Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02 / gmail.com> wrote: > I have had difficulties with a number of programs since I installed Ruby > version 1.9 so I decided to rebuild completely from the svn trunk. In > case it is relevant I am running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1. Here are the > steps I followed: I don't know if it is the problem, but I had similar problems until I updated Readline. But I am on 10.4, not 10.5 so YMMV I wrote it up at:: http://www.lindsaar.net/2008/1/18/installing-ruby-1-9-on-mac-osx Regards Mikel