From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-04-09T05:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and networking crashes app on windows

On 4/5/10, mortee <mortee.lists@kavemalna.hu> wrote:
> What I'm trying is to embed a ruby interpreter into a (multi-threaded)
> 3rd party app (using its scripting interface and its ability to load
> DLLs through it), and run my ruby code by it. After much trial and
> error, I've managed to have it work to the extent that I can call into
> my own ruby code without having it crash the app.
>
> However, anytime I try to access any networking abilities from ruby, it
> crashes the host app immediately, with a MS Visual C++ Runtime dialog
> telling me that it's requested to terminate the app in an unusual way,
> and a sole OK button. There's no logs, standard output, anything.

This is just a wild guess, but it's possible that embedding in a
multi-threaded program is what gives you grief. Suraj Kurapatni (sp?)
was having problems with it a while ago. I don't remember the exact
details, but it seems that ruby likes the stack(s) to be where _it_
wants them to be... he eventually came up with some patches to let you
at least tell ruby where the stacks actually are, but I don't think
they were accepted. I'd point you at the relevant bug report on
redmine, but it's seemingly down for repairs right now. :(