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?