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The differences between Ruby 2 and Ruby 3 are significant in terms of thread safety and memory safety. I (Cal) have not worked with the Ruby SDK very much in the past. There is not much documentation for C++ embedders to use, especially concerning the newer Ruby versions. So I decided to try out OpenAI's Codex CLI. I gave it access to all of Ruby 3.2's source and headers, along with a mechanism to compile and test ModRuby on a live Apache server. I showed it the segfault back trace in rb_protect() and told it to resolve the issue. It spent a total of around an hour doing web searches, reading the source and trying things out. It made mistakes, spotted its own errors, then recompiled and retested until it had success. I've scanned over this commit and I don't see any obvious problems with it. There were two main issues here for the Ruby 3 port: 1) You can't call rb_protect() without a global VM lock 2) You can't get the global VM lock from a thread outside of Ruby (IE: In an Apache MPM thread) Fixing #1 caused #2. The RubyDispatcher class shifts interaction with Ruby to an interface that manages the global VM. rb_protect() is wrapped in a GVL so that native C++ functions can interact with Ruby objects and methods.
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This is a PR on top of #12, so review and merge that one first before considering this.
There are significant changes from Ruby 2 to Ruby 3 and I needed help. I tried out OpenAI's Codex and was pretty impressed with it. Read more about my thoughts in d5e0faf.
I'm still testing this out in a development environment, but so far it seems like the Codex patch is working well!