Question : How to install Ruby On Rails on Linux (SuSE) with console support

I am installing Ruby On Rails on SLES 10, http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/esd/di_sles10_vmware.html.

All was fine until I tried to start the console. From Google I think I learned that readline and readline-devel need to be installed to be able to run the console.

I now have readline and readline-devel installed. I recompiled Ruby and RubyGems. The console still fails with the same message that readline is missing.

To recompile:
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft> export RUN=${HOME}/packages
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft> tar zxvf ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft> cd ruby-1.8.6
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft/ruby-1.8.6> ./configure --prefix=/usr
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft/ruby-1.8.6> make
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft/ruby-1.8.6> sudo make install
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft/ruby-1.8.6> cd ..
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft> tar zxvf rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft> cd rubygems-0.9.9.4
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/soft/rubygems-0.9.4> sudo ruby ./setup.rb
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user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/epfwiki.resultinfra.com/current> rpm -q readline
readline-5.1-24.4
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/epfwiki.resultinfra.com/current> rpm -q readline-devel
readline-devel-5.1-24.4
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/epfwiki.resultinfra.com/current> ruby script/console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.0.1)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load_modules'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start'
from /usr/bin/irb:13
user@SRC-DEV-VAS123:~/epfwiki.resultinfra.com/current>
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Answer : How to install Ruby On Rails on Linux (SuSE) with console support

Check the switches of configure and see wheter you have to add something like
--with-readline or the like you can get help about configure this way
./configure --help

if that does not help you can simply look into the configure script, you can e.g grep after readline

Regards
Friedrich
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