awesome_print not printing in glorious color multiline layout?

Question

I'm experiencing an issue wherein awesome_print is not displaying output in it's gorgeous colorized multiline format. What I find most curious is that while the gem is installed:

$ gem install awesome_print                                                                                     
Successfully installed awesome_print-1.6.1
1 gem installed

It returns a false upon require in IRB:

>> require 'awesome_print'
false

Any idea as to what may be causing this? I am not quite sure how to tackle this since gem installation seems to work fine and I can even use ap "test" in IRB with no error, except there is no colorization or proper printing with multiple lines and seems to simply fall back to some other method for printing.

No ~/.aprc changes evoke any changes either.

Answer 1

Pass the options ap object, options = {:plain => false, :multiline => true} or you can add it to the config file.

create an ~/.irbc file with the following content

require "awesome_print"
AwesomePrint.irb!

:multiline  => true,   # Display in multiple lines.
:plain      => false

Answer 2

I had the same error,although require was returning false but awesome print was working, try to print something using awesome_print(ap), like

ap data = {foo: "bar"}