Rails 1.1 Console on Windows
March 30th, 2006
If you are like me, you develop your applications on Windows and deploy to Linux/Unix/FreeBSD, whatever.
On Rails 1.1, the console does not start anymore on Windows. It reports the following error:
There are two ways to fix this issue:
- Upgrade Ruby to 1.8.4, or
- Patch your vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/console.rb to remove the “—prompt-mode single” option:
UPDATE (2006-03-30): Ah, I just found the reason why irb chokes. Richard Livsey’s script/console with edge Rails on Windows with 1.8.2
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