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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 β Read Docs β No … Continue reading Inside Rubyβs Range: A Tour Through range.c
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May 14, 2026 In-depth technical analysis Β· RubyStackNews Β· Concurrency & Performance For decades, the Global VM Lock (GVL) β also known as the GIL β 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
Ruby Numeric Deep Dive: Useful Methods You Probably Underuse (With Examples) May 13, 2026 Ruby Numeric Deep Dive: Useful Methods You Probably Underuse (With Examples) Rubyβs Numeric, Integer, Float, and Math modules expose a rich API that goes far beyond basic arithmetic. This guide focuses on useful, practical methods, with clear examples and real-world use … Continue reading Ruby Numeric Deep Dive: Useful Methods You Probably Underuse (With Examples)
May 12, 2026 If you still think Rubyβs Array is βjust a C struct with some methods on top,β youβre about 5 years out of date. Modern MRI tells a very different story. Today, Array sits at the intersection of: Ruby code (array.rb) VM intrinsics (Primitive.*) C runtime (array.c) JIT specialization (YJIT) And the result … Continue reading MRI Internals: How Ruby Arrays Became a VM Playground
Ruby Hash Isnβt Always a Hash Table (And Why That Matters) May 11, 2026 Most Ruby developers think of a Hash as a classic hash table: keys, values, O(1) lookups. Thatβs only partially true. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly from your Rails backend. Fast rendering, zero … Continue reading Ruby Hash Isnβt Always a Hash Table (And Why That Matters)
Introducing ruby-charts: Native Charts for Ruby May 10, 2026 Last Friday I released ruby-charts, a gem for generating charts directly in Rubyβno JavaScript, no external APIs. 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 β … Continue reading π Introducing ruby-charts: Native Charts for Ruby
May 7, 2026 Modern chart rendering usually assumes a browser, a JavaScript runtime, or a frontend stack. But many Ruby applications do not actually need interactive dashboards. They need deterministic image generation. Things like: scheduled reports PDF exports transactional emails admin dashboards analytics snapshots CI metrics server-side rendering pipelines That was the motivation behind building … Continue reading Generating Charts in Pure Ruby Without JavaScript
Why Ruby's Hash Pattern Parser Update Matters for Your Code May 6, 2026 Reference: Ruby ParserιηΊζ₯θͺ - Hash patternε―ΎεΏ (Day 42) 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 β Read Docs β No API … Continue reading Why Ruby’s Hash Pattern Parser Update Matters for Your Code
Do you need to build a State Machine at least once in your career? May 5, 2026 Probably not. 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 β Read Docs β No API fees β … Continue reading Do you need to build a State Machine at least once in your career?
