Musings on the State of the Art

If you’re using RVM and attempting to setup a fresh server, do not forget to do the following

$ rvm package install readline
$ rvm package install zlib
$ rvm remove 1.9.2
$ rvm install 1.9.2

Seemed to solve most open issues for me.

Also, you need to system install somedev libraries. For instance I needed to run the following because bundle install failed:

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev, libreadline5-dev, libncurses5-dev

That last statement btw – solves most problems with RVM and readlines. After that you can follow the directions on beginrescueend around readline
.