How to ensure that irb accept emoji input instead of escaping it?

Question

I have two poppies, from which I can have fun typing all emoji, please, in irb, pryetc. and deal with them just like any other line.

From a new Mac, which may have a few less customizable encoding configurations, I can't do this, and I'm not sure why.

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-darwin14.0]

Here's the animated GIF problem:

But the animated GIF irb works fine:

Any ideas on how to resolve this? I am not an expert in Ruby coding settings (UTF, etc.).

Answer 1

, Ruby GNU Readline. rvm Ruby, , Readline, .

Readline irb. :

ruby 2.1.3p242 (2014-09-19 revision 47630) [x86_64-linux]
irb(main):001:0> Readline::VERSION
=> "6.3"

, Readline Homebrew, Ruby:

brew update; brew uninstall readline; brew install readline; rbenv install