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