I built Ruby 2.1.2 from source and got all the desired 3rd party libs installed except readline. A minor nuisance since it mostly only affects irb and history. Except I want irb history so I can use the up arrow key to recall commands ( Read more... )

One of the other issues that cropped up with building Ruby from source on Windows was the lack of support for the GNU/Readline library. It's basically impossible to compile from source using MS VC++. To top it all off, I don't even really know what the thing does other than some sort of terminal key binding thingy. I'd look at the documentation for ( Read more... )