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Making Maps with Ruby January 29, 2026 Static and animated cartography built directly from GeoJSON For a long time, generating maps from code meant working inside heavy ecosystems designed primarily for analysis. Those tools are powerful, but they are not always the right fit. In many practical scenarios, the problem is simpler and more concrete: … Continue reading Making Maps with Ruby
January 13, 2026 Rivers of Europe and Entre RΓos rendered directly in Ruby Today marks a major milestone for libgd-gis: we crossed from βexperimental map rendererβ into a real GIS-grade drawing engine. Using nothing but Ruby + libgd, we are now able to render continent-scale river networks, provincial hydrology, and complex GeoJSON layers with proper … Continue reading libgd-gis moves into serious cartography territory
January 6, 2026 Why ruby-libgd is becoming Rubyβs new graphics engine Yesterday something important happened in the Ruby ecosystem. I added a native sepia filter to ruby-libgd β Rubyβs new binding to the GD Graphics Library β and with it Ruby took another step toward regaining something it quietly lost over the last decade: a … Continue reading Ruby just got a real sepia filter
Ruby on Rails Developer | Ruby, Backend January 2, 2026 In late 2025, during a RubyConf presentation about disaster-response systems, an uncomfortable truth was stated publicly: Generating map tiles and images on the server is difficult in Ruby. RMagick and MiniMagick were too slow. ruby-gd is used, but it is poorly maintained. This was not … Continue reading Rebuilding Rubyβs Image Processing Layer: Why ruby-libgd Matters for GIS and the Future of Ruby
December 15, 2025 Lessons from Ruby World Conference 2025 At Ruby World Conference 2025, Masatoshi Seki (ι’ ε°δΏ) and Miwa Fukaya (ζ·±θ°· ηΎε) presented a talk grounded in something rare in our industry: more than 20 years of real testing history. Their presentation, βHow to Create Todayβs Recommended Testsβ, introduces Ninja Testing β a testing … Continue reading Smart Test Suites with Ruby
Exploring the World of Electronic Engineering with PicoRuby December 11, 2025 Based on the presentation βExploring the World of Electronic Engineering with PicoRubyβ by Hayao Kimura at Ruby World Conference 2025. Advertise on RubyStackNews RubyStackNews is a niche publication read by Ruby and Rails developers worldwide. Our audience includes senior engineers, tech leads, and decision-makers … Continue reading Exploring the World of Electronic Engineering with PicoRuby
December 10, 2025 Based on the presentation script from RubyWorld Conference 2025 This article is based on the script of the presentation βWhy Now Is the Right Time for PicoRubyβ, delivered by Hitoshi Hasumi (ANDPAD Inc.) at RubyWorld Conference 2025. The original session was a 30-minute conference talk, and this text adapts its core ideas, … Continue reading Why Now Is the Right Time for PicoRuby
December 9, 2025 A curated list of tools that accelerate development and keep your codebase clean One of the most underrated strengths of Ruby on Rails is its generator ecosystem. Beyond the native Rails generators, many gems ship with their own commands to scaffold authentication, background jobs, pagination, translations, slugs, geolocation, and much more. These … Continue reading π§° Ruby Gems With Powerful Generators You Should Be Using in Your Rails Projects
December 8, 2025 The RubyWorld Conference 2025, held in Matsue, Japan, showcased an unexpected star of the ecosystem: Ruby running on microcontrollers. While the event traditionally focuses on Ruby in web, enterprise, or academic settings, this year a significant amount of attention shifted toward embedded systems, thanks to PicoRuby and the community project mruby Girls. … Continue reading RubyWorld Conference 2025: PicoRuby, mruby Girls, and the Future of Embedded Ruby
December 5, 2025 A Complete Guide for Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native Developers Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is one of the most misunderstood parts of modern web development β and one of the most common sources of errors developers face when building APIs. If youβre working with Ruby on Rails, React, or React … Continue reading π¦ Understanding CORS in Modern Web Development
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