Issues when requiring 'rb-readline'

[abinoam]

I was not able to make it work as the README file states.

Looking at the code at:

• lib/rb-readline.rb
• lib/rbreadline.rb
• lib/readline.rb

I have made my way with this fragment of code:

# This will remove old Readline if it's already defined
require 'rb-readline'

# This will load RbReadline for real
require 'rbreadline'

# This will load Readline that relies on RbReadline
require 'readline'

The README says we should do

require 'readline'

I think it is a little confusing to ask someone to require the gem with "another" name.
And the chances of name collision in bug situations are greater.

IMHO, the 'canonical' way of requiring rb-readline should be simple as:

require 'rb-readlne'

What are the maintainers opinion on this?

If you agree I'll try to find some time to offer a patch for that (don't promise, but I can try).
But, if somebody wants to give a try sooner, feel free to do it.

[Spakman]

Requiring RbReadline is a tricky business. I've been looking around for my various experiments with loading the library in a clean way, but alas they seem to have disappeared into the ether along with my memory of the problems I encountered.

I do remember that because Readline is part of the stdlib, this is a very awkward library to require. Sorry this isn't more help.