# Rails Console Question ?\>

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-console-question/155966>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 18, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-console-question/155966 "2008-12-18T17:10:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-console-question/155966/1 "2008-12-18T17:10:43Z")

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OS = CentOS-5.2  
Ruby = 1.8.6  
Rails = 2.2.2

This may or may not be intended behaviour.

$ script/console  
Loading development environment (Rails 2.2.2)

> >

?\>   
?\>

In short, I am getting a command complete prompt if I do not enter  
anything on a line. To get out of it I have to C. I have been  
working in the console recently and do not recall this behaviour. I  
expected that a simple would yield yet another \>\> prompt like  
below.

$ script/console  
Loading development environment (Rails 2.2.2)

> >

Is it my memory that is wrong or is there something odd about what I am  
seeing in the console?