Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase

Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase May 28, 2026 Ruby Stack News — by Germán Silva There's a quiet revolution happening in developer tooling, and it doesn't require a cloud subscription, an API key, or sending your proprietary code to someone else's server. Over the … Continue reading Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase →

Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs

Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs May 27, 2026 Ruby ships with a standard library gem named openssl, responsible for exposing cryptographic primitives, TLS/SSL sockets, certificates, digests, encryption, and secure communication APIs directly to Ruby developers. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly … Continue reading Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs →

Understanding Ruby Proc Internals Through proc.c

May 26, 2026 Ruby’s elegance hides an extremely sophisticated runtime underneath. Features like blocks, lambdas, closures, binding, method(:foo), and even &:to_s rely on a dense set of VM internals implemented in CRuby’s proc.c. This file is one of the best entry points for understanding how Ruby models executable code objects. The source analyzed here comes … Continue reading Understanding Ruby Proc Internals Through proc.c →

Inside Ruby’s Object Model

May 21, 2026 How MRI Really Implements include, prepend, extend, Singleton Classes and Method Lookup Ruby’s object model looks elegant from the outside: module Logging def call puts "before" super end end class Service prepend Logging def call puts "service" end end But internally, MRI/CRuby performs a surprising amount of machinery to make this work. … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s Object Model →

ruby-libgd Cheat Sheet: Building Native Graphics Pipelines in Ruby

ruby-libgd Cheat Sheet: Building Native Graphics Pipelines in Ruby May 20, 2026 Modern Ruby applications rarely interact directly with native graphics pipelines. Most projects delegate image processing to external tools, shell commands, or heavyweight libraries like ImageMagick. But underneath many rendering systems lies a smaller, older, and surprisingly powerful engine: libgd. The ruby-libgd project brings … Continue reading ruby-libgd Cheat Sheet: Building Native Graphics Pipelines in Ruby →

Inside Ruby’s net/http: Exploring the Networking Engine Behind Ruby APIs

May 19, 2026 Most Ruby developers use HTTP every day. Whether through: Rails API integrations webhooks OAuth providers payment gateways microservices REST clients …underneath the stack, many requests still pass through Ruby’s classic net/http. But few developers ever explore how it actually works internally. Inside Ruby’s standard library lives a surprisingly sophisticated networking engine featuring: … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s net/http: Exploring the Networking Engine Behind Ruby APIs →

Inside Ruby’s JSON Library: Complete Deep Dive

May 18, 2026 Introduction This tutorial explores the internals of the JSON library used by entity ["software","Ruby","CRuby interpreter"]. The archive contains: Native C parser implementation Native C generator implementation SIMD optimizations Floating-point conversion algorithms Buffer management infrastructure Ruby wrapper APIs JSON additions for Ruby core classes Build system integration Repository structure: json/ ├── parser/ │ … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s JSON Library: Complete Deep Dive →

Inside Ruby’s Range: A Tour Through range.c

May 18, 2026 Most Ruby developers use ranges every day: (1..5) ('a'..'z') (1...) (..10) They feel lightweight, expressive, and almost deceptively simple. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly from your Rails backend. Fast rendering, zero external dependencies, full control. View Live Demo → Read Docs ✓ No … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s Range: A Tour Through range.c →

Ruby events this week

Generated automatically by RubyEventsBot using ruby-libgd. Updated every 7 days. #Ruby#RubyEvents#RubyLanguage#RubyOnRails Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly from your Rails backend. Fast rendering, zero external dependencies, full control. View Live Demo → Read Docs ✓ No API fees ✓ Self-hosted ✓ Rails Native ✓ Fast Rendering Why … Continue reading Ruby events this week →

Ractors: Real Parallelism in Ruby Without the GVL

May 14, 2026 In-depth technical analysis · RubyStackNews · Concurrency & Performance For decades, the Global VM Lock (GVL) — also known as the GIL — was CRuby's great concession: the safety and simplicity of an object model free of data races, in exchange for not being able to execute Ruby code in parallel within … Continue reading Ractors: Real Parallelism in Ruby Without the GVL →