Pry: Problem loading history

[mmartinson]

Using pry and pry-rails to debug rspec tests and after reinstalling my OS and losing my original configuration I've found that I'm not able to get pry history to load into a new session. I'm not sure if I've found a bug or missed something in the config.

History is being written to ~/.pry_history and I am able to load it into a new pry session with Pry.history.load, but unless I type this manually at the start of the session it's not loading. .pryrc has these:

Pry.config.history.file = "/Users/houdini/.pry_history"
Pry.config.history.should_save = true
Pry.config.history.should_load = true

Seems o be no different whether the rc is empty or the config is specified explicitly. The same config added to a project .pryrc has no effect

[quinn]

I had this same issue and fixed it (I think) by reinstalling ruby with readline:

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-readline-dir=`brew --prefix readline` rbenv install 2.2.2

[artem-russkikh]

I have same issue and reinstalling ruby with readline didn't fix it

[artem-russkikh]

Oh sorry, now its working
Seems to new terminal session fix that

[pragmat1c1]

Same problem here. Reinstalling ruby with readline did not fix it for me. Using Ruby 2.2.3 and rbenv.

I made sure that .pryrc is being loaded. Here is my .pryrc file:

Pry.config.history.file = "/Users/ugur/.pry_history"
Pry.config.history.should_save = true
Pry.config.history.should_load = true
Pry.config.editor = 'vim'
Pry.history.load   
puts "Finished loading Pry history"

Only if I enter Pry.history.load in pry manually this will work.

[pragmat1c1]

Fixed it following the instructions on:

https://github.com/guard/guard/wiki/Add-Readline-support-to-Ruby-on-Mac-OS-X

[cema-sp]

@tarlig, @quinn :+1:
It helped me too

[AlexVPopov]

Reinstalling Ruby with readline didn't help me. The only thing that helped me was adding rb-readline in the development group of my Gemfile.