~/.irbrc not executed when starting irb or script/console

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Published on 2010-04-24T10:01:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 10:03 UTC
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irb

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rails-console

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bash

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fedora

Here's what I've tried:

1. gem install awesome_print
2. echo "require 'ap'" >> ~/.irbrc
3. chmod u+x ~/.irbrc
4. script/console
5. ap { :test => 'value' }

Result:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `ap' for #

Some additional info:

Fedora 13 (observed this issues in prior versions of Fedora also)

bash --version

Produces:

GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 

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