Written March 22, 2008 at 22:40 CET. Tagged Ruby and OS X.
The irb (Interactive Ruby) that ships with OS X Leopard does not have readline support. Instead it uses libedit.
This means that things like ⌃R for reverse history search don't work. More importantly to me, you can't use non-ASCII characters like Swedish "å", "ä" and "ö".
Compiling your own Ruby (with readline) is one solution. If you just want ctrl+R, macosxhints has another.
The solution I'm currently using is the work of jptix, a regular on the ##textmate IRC channel. He asked me to blog about it, so here it is.
