ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21) [arm-linux-gnueabihf] segfaults with various libraries

[Francesc Oller]

same bug as https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14467
An example to reproduce:

require 'gtk3'
require 'mfrc522'
rfid = MFRC522.new

This ruby version segfaults with various ruby gems: evdev, mfrc522, ruby-nfc,...

This is unfortunate because this ruby version is the one which gets installed with sudo apt-get install ruby on RPi Raspbian Stretch. Quick workaround: install ruby 2.5 via rvm and forget about ruby 2.3.3 stock

I'd request to change ruby version on stock Raspbian Stretch 2018-06-27

[peter green (plugwash)]

If you can supply a targetted patch I will consider it, but I'm not going to go changing the default ruby version in a stable release.

Good to hear it works with ruby 2.5 which looks like it will be the default in buster.