Backspace and arrow keys aren't working in IRB(Git Bash console) on windows machine Backspace and arrow keys aren't working in IRB(Git Bash console) on windows machine ruby ruby

Backspace and arrow keys aren't working in IRB(Git Bash console) on windows machine


Same thing happened to me. Running irb with --noreadline solved my problem:

irb --noreadline


You can also disable readline in ~/.irbrc

IRB.conf[:USE_READLINE] = false


Seems you didn't have readline installed while compile ruby. So install readline, maybe also readline-devel, then recompile ruby.