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soultech67 / ruby_readline_issue.md
Last active June 6, 2022 21:18
ruby bundler: Sorry, you can't use byebug without Readline

Preamble

On OS/X Sierra, after recently running a brew update I started receiving the error message Sorry, you can't use byebug without Readline when trying to run some rake tasks in my ruby project folder. I observed this in projects and gems that include byebug or pry in their Gemfile or gem.spec. I've found in my googling that many begin encountering this error message after running a brew update but there are other triggering conditions as well.

>> rake aws:show_config
WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
      mime-types (>= 0)
WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
Please report a bug if this causes problems.
 Sorry, you can't use byebug without Readline. To solve this, you need to
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isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active November 2, 2024 12:56
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh