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Ruby Ruby on Rails 5 Basics Using the Rails Console Launching Rails console

Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
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Posted by Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points

Getting an error when I type bin/rails console

I am getting the following error when I type the command above

Running via Spring preloader in process 4981
/Users/briankaty1/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@global/gems/activesupport-5.0.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:293:in `require': dlopen(/Users/briankaty1/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/x86_64-darwin16/readline.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.dylib (LoadError)
  Referenced from: /Users/briankaty1/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/x86_64-darwin16/readline.bundle
  Reason: image not found - /Users/briankaty1/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/x86_64-darwin16/readline.bundle

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

I see "darwin" in the output above, so I'm guessing you're running MacOS... I Googled for "rails console library not loaded libreadline" and found this Stack Overflow answer which may help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25591527/rails-console-doesnt-load-due-to-libreadline