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April 15, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Today I created a flyer to send to Ruby on Rails Kaigi about my library stack. I strongly recommend keeping an eye on that conference. After … Continue reading Create QR Codes from Scratch with Ruby, ruby-libgd, and rqrcode
Building MapView: Architecture, CI/CD, and Production Deployment on Railway April 13, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Introduction MapView is a server-side map rendering engine for Rails that generates high-quality geographic visualizations without external … Continue reading Building MapView: Architecture, CI/CD, and Production Deployment on Railway
MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails April 12, 2026 After an extensive development journey, MapView has arrived: a powerful API for generating map images directly from your Ruby server. What is MapView? MapView is a Ruby gem that enables you to render maps, routes, points, and polygons with zoom levels ranging from a global world … Continue reading MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails
Building a Complete GIS Stack in Rails: ruby-libgd + libgd-gis + map_view April 10, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Over the past few months I’ve been working on a small GIS-oriented stack in … Continue reading Building a Complete GIS Stack in Rails: ruby-libgd + libgd-gis + map_view
April 8, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Static GIS maps, pure Ruby, GeoJSON support, and zero JavaScript bloat. Over 15 years ago, I discovered the GD library at a Linux conference. I was … Continue reading Pure Ruby Maps: libgd-gis + Rails
MapView: Static maps for Rails. No JS. No frontend. Just Ruby. April 7, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → From the creator of ruby-libgd and libgd-gis comes native Rails integration Many of you already … Continue reading MapView: Static maps for Rails. No JS. No frontend. Just Ruby.
What's this? DragonRuby Game Toolkit April 6, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Ruby outside the web browser. On a game cartridge. Sort of. Every so often, something appears in the Ruby world that … Continue reading What’s this? DragonRuby Game Toolkit
This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations April 5, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → A new batch of improvements has landed in the Rails codebase this week, focusing … Continue reading This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations
The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won April 2, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → fter teaching different AIs the ruby-libgd interfaces, I proposed a competition: Who could create the most creative and beautiful … Continue reading The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won
Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production March 31, 2026 The Love Affair You know the feeling. Local machine, Rails server running, something breaks. You glance at the terminal and there it is: a beautiful stack trace with every detail you need. Started GET "/articles/999" for 127.0.0.1 at 2026-03-31 10:23:45 -0300 Processing … Continue reading Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production
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