Hi, I'm installing Rails on Linux and I want to share my experiences with it. I expected a smooth installation because the Rails experts often mention Linux as the preferred platform for Rails. I think it is true if there wasn't the readline requirement. This package will allow to start the Rails console. Because of the requirement I think in fact many will experience that installing Rails on Linux also means searching the outer edges of the internet for the readline package and maybe having to compile the package themselves for a specific distribution. The fact that the readline package is default not in most Linux distributions implies that Rails should not depend on it?.
Already and only for three slightly different SuSE distributions I have spend countless hours searching for that package. Best Regards, Onno