Issue with cld3-ruby in latest versions when upgrading

[phobos-dthorga]

Hello everyone!

We at GekkoFyre Networks made an attempted upgrade to the latest version of glitch-soc for Mastodon and ended up having to restore the virtual private server from a backup in the end. Some of the issues we experienced are detailed in this blog article we published about the matter, notifying our immediate community about the backup restoration.

Basically, we pulled the latest version of glitch-soc from GitHub as of last night (Australian EST), and during mid-compilation with Ruby we experienced a critical error related to the cld3-ruby library.

We've found some other issues about it here and there in the Mastodon community, but for the most part, it is preventing us from upgrading further than the current version which is at least 2-3 months old.

We're seeking advice on how to proceed from here, please, and although we did forget to capture the exact error message that occurred since backup restoration, we can go one better. We are happy to offer a development server containing our instance to anyone that can be trusted/vouched for.

Thank you.