Year: 2026

Ruby Rendering Seismic Observation Data

January 27, 2026 From Disaster Prevention to High-Performance Maps On December 26, 2025, I published an article titled “Ruby at the Front Line of Disaster Prevention.” It was inspired by a real, uncomfortable fact: Tokyo Gas uses Ruby to protect millions of people during earthquakes. Not in theory. Not as a prototype. In production. That … Continue reading Ruby Rendering Seismic Observation Data →

Stabilizing a Native Ruby GIS Engine with Docker, RuboCop, and CI

January 26, 2026 For many years, Ruby developers working with maps and geospatial data have relied on external tools or loosely coupled pipelines. ImageMagick, command-line utilities, and background processes became the norm, even though they were never designed to be deterministic GIS rendering engines. The result was fragile systems: slow, hard to debug, and difficult … Continue reading Stabilizing a Native Ruby GIS Engine with Docker, RuboCop, and CI →