`make_valid` throwing errors about rgeo HOT 1 OPEN

@phil-the-dev do you have geos installed? You can check if it's properly linked by running RGeo::Geos.supported?.

RGeo uses different backends depending on system configuration and what factory you specify. Cartesian factories will try to use geos as a backend if possible, but will fallback to the ruby implementation if it's not available. The geos backend has more methods implemented and is much more performant than the ruby implementation (https://github.com/rgeo/rgeo/blob/main/doc/Factory-Compatibility.md). That table doesn't include make_valid, but I know that we haven't implemented make_valid for ruby backends.

We have plans to bundle geos with the gem and automatically install it to avoid issues like this, but for now unless you're doing a simple project we recommend installing geos yourself and using the geos backend.

from rgeo.