libgd-gis: Filling Ruby’s Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem

libgd-gis: Filling Ruby's Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem March 26, 2026 For years, generating map tiles, GIS visualizations, and fast raster graphics in Ruby has been a painful experience. ImageMagick derivatives were slow. External services added latency and complexity. The old ruby-gd binding languished unmaintained. Then ruby-libgd arrived - a modern, actively maintained binding … Continue reading libgd-gis: Filling Ruby’s Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem →

FFI: How Ruby Talks to C

March 25, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Scan to try 🎯 Live Demo Available Introducing MapView Render beautiful, production-ready maps directly from your Ruby backend. No external APIs. No dependencies. Just pure speed and control. ✓ Zero external dependencies ✓ Lightning-fast rendering ✓ Production-ready & battle-tested Try the Live Demo → Read Docs Ruby is a … Continue reading FFI: How Ruby Talks to C →

The Odin Project: Why It’s One of the Best Ways to Learn Web Development

March 24, 2026 Scan to try 🎯 Live Demo Available Introducing MapView Render beautiful, production-ready maps directly from your Ruby backend. No external APIs. No dependencies. Just pure speed and control. ✓ Zero external dependencies ✓ Lightning-fast rendering ✓ Production-ready & battle-tested Try the Live Demo → Read Docs If you’re looking for a structured, … Continue reading The Odin Project: Why It’s One of the Best Ways to Learn Web Development →

Ruby Sees the World: Automatic Measurement from Photos

Ruby Sees the World: Automatic Measurement from Photos March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews What if Ruby could look at a photo of a house and tell you the width of the door, the height of the windows, and the total wall length? That is not science fiction. It is photogrammetry. And it is buildable … Continue reading Ruby Sees the World: Automatic Measurement from Photos →

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Nobody expects Ruby to process medical images. That is exactly why I tried it. This article is about building a medical image analysis prototype in pure Ruby using ruby-libgd as the rendering and pixel manipulation engine. No Python. No … Continue reading Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor →