ruby task using 100% of CPU - macbook running - ruby

When running a rails server or even console. I have a ruby process that will take 100% of the CPU up and cause the laptop to run the fans at full blast. I can stop the task with
> spring stop
but this isn't a long term solution.
Any ideas if there is a fix/configuration that needs to be made to fix this?

Found a solution to this issue. Apparently the issue resides with the 'listen' gem that's incompatible with MacOs big sur. Updating the gem to this version fixes the issue.
gem 'listen', '>=3.0.5', '<4.0'
Problem and resolution from this thread
https://github.com/rails/spring/issues/636#issuecomment-755404716

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Trouble with pod install of hermes engine on m1 mac

I've created a React-Native application as of 0.70.6, went through the grief of cocoapods and everything that comes with development on Apple's silicon chips (M2) and got it working and have done quite a bit of work on the project, and then (after creating a GitHub repo) handed it off to a coworker to do some design work (who is on an M1) ...had many issues on their machine as well, but eventually got it working. Now, React-Native 0.71.0 has been released and I ran through all of the steps to upgrade it and got it working on my M2 machine, no issues at all, but after pushing and getting it on their machine, I have not been able to find a solution to the pod install failing due to the hermes-engine not being able to load, a couple of the errors that pop up are,
[!] Failed to load 'hermes-engine' podspec:
[!] Invalid `hermes-engine.podspec` file: undefined method 'exists?' for FileClass.
I have been searching all day for what this means (I am fairly new to React-Native ...and mobile development in general) and I've gathered that 'exists?' has been deprecated as of certain versions of ruby (I'm on 3.2.0) although, it runs fine on my machine, so I am confused as to what could be missing. I've been using chruby to install ruby, and the only difference there is that I have ruby versions 2.7.5 and 2.7.7 on my machine ... but of course, there are flags that I had to set in order to actually be able to install them on my machine and I don't believe they affect my project since bundle install and pod install works using 3.2.0.
To list out what all I have installed on these machines:
bundler -> 2.4.1
cocoapods -> 1.11.3
ruby -> 3.2.0
node -> 18.13.0
xcode -> 14.2 (with command line tools)
Another bit of error reporting, in case it is useful:
Command `pod install` failed.
└─ Cause: Failed to load 'hermes-engine' podspec:
[!] Invalid `hermes-engine.podspec` file: undefined method `exists?' for File:Class.
# from /Users/<user>/projects/<app_dir>/node_modules/react-native/sdks/hermes-engine/hermes-engine.podspec:46
# -------------------------------------------
# source[:http] = "file://#{destination_path}"
> elsif File.exists?(hermestag_file) && isInCI
# Pod::UI.puts '[Hermes] Detected that you are on a React Native release branch, building Hermes from source but fetched from tag...'.yellow if Object.const_defined?("Pod::UI")
# -------------------------------------------
If there is any information that I need to include for clarity, I will update this post as need-be.
I've tried removing the Pods file, and then pod install... same error
Removed Podfile.lock, cache clean AND removing Pods... same error
Removing node_modules/ npm cache clean --force && npm install
then doing npx pod-install to hopefully let node handle things... same error
Ran pod deintegrate and pod install... was scary, broke things, so reverted, back to square 1
There are other things that I've tried earlier today that I cannot remember, and they've gone home, so I can't access all the commands I ran, but these were the freshest, and until I get a more clear view, I'll be trying to get those flags that need to be set to install the older versions of ruby to see if that does anything
One last mention though, we also recently got an M1 Mac Mini, and I ran through all of the steps to get the project working...ended up in the same rut as the other M1, but again, will be trying those LD_FLAGS or whatever it may be and update this thread if that is what fixes the issue
Looking at older issues related to these, people found work-arounds using -x86_64 commands, and I've managed to get this far without any since maintainers have released newer versions with arm64 support, but if I need it anywhere, so be it, I'll take what I can get at this point
Without needing to install other versions of ruby or anything, I got it install the hermes-engine pod by doing something I find dirty...which is just go into that file it mentions and remove the 's' in exists? so it just says exist? and then I also downgraded cocoapods from 1.11.3 to 1.11.2 and seeing how that .podspec file is laid out, it conditionally loads the engine by first seeing if is downloaded on the machine, and then once it sees that it is not, that's where it eventually hits this problem code with the exists conditional...so it downloaded everything and worked fine and I was able to build and run my app on the mac mini...but when trying the same steps on the other m1 machine, I got a very useful error -- Oh no, an error occured ...perfect, and now I am questioning if these changes I have made will effect the M2 pod commands
If there is no better answer provided in the next few days, I'll assume this is the best possible fix until react-native upgrades their ruby version to 3.2.0 which after some more digging...is the exact release that this exists? file method was removed
But would still love feedback for anyone else using an M1 MacBook who has had these issues on the stable release of React-Native 0.71.0

Warning on Heroku with JRuby and Puma: "The signal USR1 is in use by the JVM and will not work correctly on this platform"

Basically, as the title says, logs show the following warning on every restart:
2015-03-30T13:59:14.504047+00:00 app[web.2]: The signal USR1 is in use by the JVM and will not work correctly on this platform
When I tried to google this up only results I got was different deployment errors and people wrongly assuming the warning is the result, but no mention of the warning itself.
Does anybody know what this means and what are the implications? Is there a way to resolve it and should it even be resolved?
We are using JRuby 1.7.16 in 1.9.3 mode & Rails 4.1.1 but the warning has been happening to people using other versions of Rails too
I think this is just a warning that you can ignore. I was getting the same message with guard-jruby-rspec on my local machine. I'm pretty sure it turned out to be something about how Bundler launches a secondary process and then tries to signal it. There is a Puma issue to corroborate this.
Are you running the puma command with bundle exec? I think you can safely remove this on Heroku because there will only be one puma gem installed the slug.

Moving Sinatra from Webrick to a different server on windows - thin installed but can't load eventmachine

I'm building a simple web app on Sinatra that I can deploy like a gem to artifactory; to start with I'm getting everything setup.
Here's what I've done:
I've got the the gemspec done so I can deploy like a gem
I've got sinatra modular set up with a basic 'hello world' page
I've got Rspec setup for testing (hello world test passes)
I've got rake tasks to make things easier (booting up sinatra, building the gem, running tests, etc)
Now I need to move Sinatra from Webrick to somthing a bit more robust and that's this is where I'm hitting a wall.
I've tried Unicorn,thin and Puma but they all won't install and I don't know what to do.
They all fail at Building Native extensions, I don't know what to do.
I'm using windows 8.1 (i'd rather be doing this on ubuntu but the company uses windows and to be honest I like a challenge) ruby 2.1 and I have devkit installed (and it's working now, wouldn't last night).
From what I've read Unicorn won't work on windows so the best bet is to go with thin but that fails with: extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lc... *** extconf.rb failed ***
It mentions that I need the devkit installed (it is the first line is Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...)
Despite this it fails, I tried doing what I found in this but that didn't help ( Installing event machine didn't do anything).
I'm at a loss of what to do next.
EDIT:
Whilst I've solved the problem of getting Thin to install it now has a differant error
IT can't load eventmachine.
EDIT:
It all comes down to the fact that the Devkit wasn't being recognised or it didn't install properly or something. I wonder why.
I've tried Unicorn,thin and Puma but they all won't install and I don't know what to do. They all fail at Building Native extensions, I don't know what to do.
The reason these are failing is that many ruby gems use native C extensions which expect to be compiled and installed on a linux or unix environment.
Doing any sort of Ruby development work on a Windows machine is an exercise in sadomasochism.
I strongly recommend you install VirtualBox, download an Ubuntu or similar linux virtual machine image, boot it, configure it, and use it as your development webserver. You can continue to edit your code in windows, but you will be running it in a sane environment.
Ultimately, you may have to learn some new skills, but you will save yourself an enormous amount of frustration by moving off windows as your development platform.
I managed to get thin installed but it wasn't easy
I wiped every bit of ruby from my machine, including all references in the registry, got rid of pik as well.
I then followed these steps (that I worked out along with an answer from another question) and it now works
install rubyinstaller 2.1.3
install devkit
gem install thin --platform=[win64]
notepad C:\Ruby21-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.1.0\gems\eventmachine-1.0.3\ext\project.h #append line 97 with //
cd C:\Ruby21-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.1.0\gems\eventmachine-1.0.3
gem build eventmachine.gemspec
move eventmachine-1.0.3.gem up one directory
cd ..
gem install eventmachine-1.0.3.gem
del the gemfile
cd
gem install thin --platform=[win64]
A bit of a job BUT it worked,
The answer in question isthis one.
specifically
2) edited the file:
c:\Ruby21-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.0.0\gems\eventmachine-1.0.3\ext\project.h
and commented the line 97
//typedef int pid_t; for a more robust correction, checkout the
solution here
https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine/pull/450/files
3) then, i've opened command prompt, and went to the gem folder
c:\Ruby21-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.0.0\gems\eventmachine-1.0.3 and run:
gem build eventmachine.gemspec
In the end, after hammering my head against a wall, on a suggestion I installed chef-client and using the embedded ruby allowed it to work, that said it only uses ruby 1.9.3 but it works so for now it will have to do.

Debugging Stuck Ruby Process - Workling\Starling

We have a rails app that about every 24 hours runs the load average on the machine well beyond 5. It looks like a stuck Ruby process specifically related to a background process running to manage event and calendar reminders. It seems like killing it and restarting the app resolves temporarily:
dd 6554 1 0 00:38 ? 00:00:15 /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/starling -d -p 15151 -P /u/apps/dd/shared/starling.pid -q /u/apps/dd/shared/starling -L /u/apps/dd/shared/starling.log
Is there anything better than debugging with GDB? I don't see much useful info there.
Ruby 1.8.7 x86_64
Rails 2.3.9
Eventmachine 1.0.3
Workling 0.4.9.9
Starling 0.10.1
CentOS 5.9
Thanks
Pretty much everything you listed is super old. You're problem could be as simple as memory leaks that have been fixed in the years since all of those versions were released.
Otherwise, you could try out some Ruby profile tools such as ruby-prof.

How do I debug a Ruby gem? (Compass)

I am in the early stages of learning Ruby and want to learn how to debug a gem, but am having trouble finding learning resources around this. A simple example would go a long way for me.
Is debugger the preferred debugger? Where do I require it? How do I set breakpoints with it?
Note: I am making an educated guess that the debugging process may be different depending on the gem that needs debugging, so for reference I am particularly interested in debugging certain issues with Compass.
OK, figured this out on my own. Here were the steps I took..
I am running Ruby 1.9.3 (determined by running ruby -v), so after testing ruby-debug and ruby-debug19, I determined these debuggers were no longer maintained, or at least didn't work properly with my install of ruby1.9.3-p125. This lead me to debugger.
The install instructions that worked were:
$ gem install debugger -- --with-ruby-include=PATH_TO_HEADERS
The PATH_TO_HEADERS on my machine, was simply the source location of ruby:
/Users/myusername/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p125/
Since I was particularly determined to debug the Compass compiler, I did the following:
Cloned the source: $ git clone git://github.com/chriseppstein/compass.git
Checked existing compass version first $ compass -v which was 13.0
Edited VERSION.yml and increased the patch number (to 13.1) so it didn't conflict with my existing install.
Edited the .rb of the file I wanted to debug, which was lib/compass/compiler.rb and added this line at the top: require 'debugger'; debugger
Built the gem: gem build compass.gemspec
Installed the newly compiled gem: sudo gem install compass-0.13.2.058ead2.gem
Compiled an existing compass based project that I was experiencing problems with, and started debugging.
When I was done debugging, I uninstalled the debugging version with sudo gem uninstall compass and chose the number corresponding to Compass 13.2.
Note about step 7: Since debugger has the same debugging commands as ruby-debug/ruby-debug19, I was able to follow existing tutorials around debugging steps..
Such as this RailsCast:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/54-debugging-with-ruby-debug
And this blog (and linked cheat sheet):
http://pivotallabs.com/users/chad/blog/articles/366-ruby-debug-in-30-seconds-we-don-t-need-no-stinkin-gui-
If you have other debugger tutorials, pointers, tips, etc, please post them.

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