Designing Safe Parallelism in Rails

Designing Safe Parallelism in Rails February 12, 2026 Eliminating Connection Pool Exhaustion in Production At Kaigi on Rails 2025, 片田 恭平 (@katakyo) delivered a deeply practical talk titled: “もう並列実行は怖くない — コネクション枯渇解消のための実践的アプローチ” (“Parallel Execution Is No Longer Scary — A Practical Approach to Eliminating Connection Pool Exhaustion”) もう並列実行は怖くない__コネクション枯渇解消のための実践的ア… This session explored a real-world scaling problem inside … Continue reading Designing Safe Parallelism in Rails →

Rails Meets PostgreSQL 18

February 11, 2026 Compatibility, Protocol Changes, and Virtual Generated Columns in Rails 8.1 At Kaigi on Rails 2025, Rails Committer Yasuo Honda delivered a deep technical walkthrough titled: Rails meets PostgreSQL 18 PostgreSQL 18 was officially released on September 25, 2025, and the talk explains how Rails adapts — not just at the marketing level, … Continue reading Rails Meets PostgreSQL 18 →

When Maps Explain Themselves: Legends, Style, and Finished Images in Ruby

February 10, 2026 Introduction libgd-gis now supports legends, introducing a fundamental building block in map communication. With the release of v0.4.1, legends become a first-class feature of the rendering pipeline, pushing the library one step closer to covering the essential capabilities expected from a modern GIS engine. Legends are not just a visual accessory. They … Continue reading When Maps Explain Themselves: Legends, Style, and Finished Images in Ruby →

Only 3% Got It Right: 5 Dangerous Ruby on Rails Code Patterns from RubyKaigi

Only 3% Got It Right: 5 Dangerous Ruby on Rails Code Patterns from RubyKaigi February 9, 2026 At RubyKaigi 2025, a deceptively simple Rails code quiz was presented at a booth. It looked like everyday production code — nothing exotic, no trick questions. About 100 developers attempted it. Only 3 answered everything correctly. This article … Continue reading Only 3% Got It Right: 5 Dangerous Ruby on Rails Code Patterns from RubyKaigi →

A quick DEMO of Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4.

Not a tutorial, not a benchmark — just experimenting with 2D and 3D rendering in Ruby and confirming that the foundation is already mature and reliable. Links: https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-libgd https://github.com/ggerman/ruby-libgd # frozen_string_literal: true require "gd" W = 1400 H = 500 TEXT = "Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4" FONT = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf" SIZE = 72 DEPTH = 32 img = … Continue reading A quick DEMO of Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4. →

Tackling Inevitable I/O Latency in Rails

February 6, 2026 Lessons from Kaigi on Rails 2025 on SSE and Async Modern Rails applications increasingly depend on external systems: third-party APIs, background services, data pipelines, and—more recently—AI and LLM inference. While Rails itself continues to evolve in performance and concurrency, I/O latency remains largely unavoidable in many real-world scenarios. At Kaigi on Rails … Continue reading Tackling Inevitable I/O Latency in Rails →

Validating a Native Ruby Gem on Ruby 4.0.1

Validating a Native Ruby Gem on Ruby 4.0.1 February 5, 2026 Notes from the ruby-libgd 0.2.4 release With the release of Ruby 4.0, native extensions deserve a bit more attention than usual. Unlike pure-Ruby gems, C extensions depend not only on Ruby’s public API, but also on how headers, build tools, and packaging are wired … Continue reading Validating a Native Ruby Gem on Ruby 4.0.1 →

Kamal in the Real World: Lessons from Running Rails Apps on AWS

February 4, 2026 At Kaigi on Rails 2025, one talk stood out for being refreshingly honest about infrastructure. Not a tutorial. Not a product pitch. But a real report from production. In Hall Blue, yappu presented: “Kamalって便利？社内プロジェクト3つをKamal + AWSで運用した体験談” (Is Kamal useful? Operating three internal projects with Kamal + AWS) What followed was exactly the … Continue reading Kamal in the Real World: Lessons from Running Rails Apps on AWS →

Opening the Heart of libgd-gis

Opening the Heart of libgd-gis February 3, 2026 How Ruby Turns Coordinates into Maps (and Why Tests Matter) Maps look simple on the surface. You give them coordinates. They give you an image. But anyone who has gone even slightly deeper knows that coordinates are never just numbers. They are context. They are assumptions. They … Continue reading Opening the Heart of libgd-gis →

Introducing Type Guard to Steep

Introducing Type Guard to Steep February 2, 2026 Type Narrowing for Real-World Ruby Applications Based on the RubyKaigi 2025 talk “Introducing Type Guard to Steep” by Takeshi Komiya CTO at Time Intermedia Inc., maintainer of rbs_rails and Rails type generators. Presented at RubyKaigi 2025. Context and Attribution This article is a technical analysis and expansion … Continue reading Introducing Type Guard to Steep →