This might be a far stretch- but I used to be able to start my rails console, and while it's loading (since it has to boot everything and we use some large apps- so it takes a while) I could begin typing the first line of code in. When it finishes loading, it catches up and has everything I had been typing loading in.
That sounds like a silly feature, and I hardly know how to even describe it, but I recently got a new machine and that functionality is gone.
I find it super frustrating, as it can take 5-8 seconds sometimes to load the console (I know there are other issues there) and I REALLY appreciated having the head start functionality.
Hopefully somebody knows what's going on here, as I'd really like to get that fixed. :)
Finally found the solution, and it was actually related to another console issue I was running into.
The issue was that the readline gem was not installed prior to Ruby.
The solution was:
# Reinstall Readline
brew uninstall readline
brew install readline
# Reinstall current version of Ruby
rbenv uninstall 2.3.0
rbenv install 2.3.0
bundle install
This resolved both the typing before the console finished loading, and re-enabled my access to the history in previous sessions.