On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Chad Perrin <code / apotheon.net> wrote: > I have not been able to get readline working with the 1.9.3 preview using > RVM. > > I did, by the way, try following the instructions at the referenced URI > (replacing "1.9.2" with "ruby-1.9.3-preview1"). ¨Âäéãå ¨Âîù > suggestions on how to resolve this problem would be appreciated. $ uname -a Darwin Mac-mini.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 $ rvm get latest $ rvm reload $ rvm pkg install readline (skipping remove since I haven't installed 1.9.3 at all yet) $ rvm install 1.9.3-preview1 --with-readline-dir=$rvm_path/usr $ rvm use 1.9.3-preview1 $ ruby -v -e "p require 'readline'" ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-07-31 revision 32789) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] true And it seems to be working in irb. Can you tell us more about your host?