rails with spring gem and google/cloud/firestore thread fault

[davingee]

if i install google/cloud/firestore i get a threading fault.

Environment details

• OS: Mac OS Catalina 10.15
• Ruby version: ruby-2.4.5
• Gem name and version: google-cloud-firestore (1.1.0)

Steps to reproduce

1. install rails (5.2.3)
2. install spring (2.1.0)
3. rails c

Code example

  require "google/cloud/firestore"
  
  firestore = Google::Cloud::Firestore.new(
    project_id: 'project_id',
    credentials: "/path.json"
  )

  city_ref = firestore.doc "cities/LA"

  data = {
    name:    "Los Angeles",
    state:   "CA",
    country: "USA"
  }

  city_ref.set data

Full backtrace

2.4.5 :019 >     city_ref.set data
objc[17615]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[17615]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.

[pcriv]

@davingee I'm having a similar issue, what OS are you on?

[jpaas]

Same here. Catalina 10.15.1, Rails 6.0.1, ruby-2.6.5

[jpaas]

For me it only started in the past couple of days. We've been using spring 2.1.0 for a while now. The crash happens if I try using ActiveRecord in a rails console.

[pcriv]

Did you see this issue?

[jpaas]

Yep watching that one too. My workaround atm is to uninstall spring from my rails project. 😢

[pcriv]

@jpaas my workaround so far it's running all commands with DISABLE_SPRING=1

[jpaas]

Ah that's handy. Thanks @pablocrivella !

[pcriv]

Re-installing PostgreSQL fixed the issue for me. Check ged/ruby-pg#311 (comment)

[jpaas]

I just tried it but it didn't help.

In my setup I am running postgres in a Docker container. I use Homebrew to install postgresql just for the lib so that I can use rails in macland.

rails s running on Catalina works fine against my Docker postgres.

rails c running on Catalina always segfaults.

[gaga5lala]

I had the same issue when using google-cloud-translate (3.2.2) in rails console While rails server works fine with both puma and passenger.

objc[60612]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[60612]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.

• ruby 3.0.2p107 (2021-07-07 revision 0db68f0233) [x86_64-darwin20]
• Rails 6.0.4.1
• ruby Spring version 3.0.0
• MacOS 11.4 Big Sur

    grpc (1.38.0)
      google-protobuf (~> 3.15)
      googleapis-common-protos-types (~> 1.0)