mruby Gems: Extending Ruby for Embedded Systems

mruby Gems: Extending Ruby for Embedded Systems March 11, 2026 Most developers associate Ruby with web development. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails helped Ruby become one of the most productive languages for building web applications. However, Ruby is not limited to servers or web frameworks. Ruby can also run in places far away from data … Continue reading mruby Gems: Extending Ruby for Embedded Systems

Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation

Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation March 9, 2026 Open-source development is often a marathon, not a sprint. Today, ruby-libgd, a Ruby library for image generation, has reached an exciting milestone: 3,000 downloads. This achievement reflects not only adoption but also the sustained effort behind a library that brings dynamic image … Continue reading Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation

The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events

The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events March 8, 2026 For many developers who experienced the early days of the hacker culture and the free software movement, programming once had a different rhythm. It was exploratory. Curious. Creative. Developers wrote small tools, scripts, and experiments simply because they could. Those scripts often solved … Continue reading The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events