Ruby readline characters

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➜ rails c

irb(main):001:0> test = 1
=> 1

irb(main):002:0> ^[[A^C
irb(main):002:0> ^D

➜ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x86_64-darwin16]

➜ irb -v          
irb 0.9.6(09/06/30)

➜ sw_vers        
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.12.1
BuildVersion:	16B2548a

➜ ruby -r rbconfig -e 'puts RbConfig::CONFIG["configure_args"]'
 '--prefix=/Users/justin/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1' '--with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/openssl:/usr/local/opt/readline:/usr/local/opt/libyaml:/usr/local/opt/gdbm'

For months now, I've had an issue where any ruby console doesn't let me use the arrow keys for navigating anymore.

Here you see I start a rails console, type an example bit of code, try to use the up arrow to change that bit of code, but instead of it placing the most recent line on the prompt, it places ^[[A. I then must use ^C to get a new line and then, in this example I used ^D to exit the prompt but I could have just continued on with whatever I was doing.

I've tried

• uninstalling and reinstalling readline through homebrew
• re-compiling ruby before and after doing that
• uninstalling the rb-readline gem
• switching to bash from zsh

ruby 2.3.1p112

I thought ruby did away with patch levels once they moved to 2.0+?

@StabbyCutyou I must be on the bootleg rubies