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December 22, 2025 Reflections from RubyRelease30th and Matz’s Keynote As 2025 comes to an end and Ruby moves closer to the long-awaited release of Ruby 4, the Ruby Release 30th Anniversary Party, held on December 20, felt like more than a commemorative event. It was a moment of reflection—about history, values, and why Ruby continues … Continue reading Ruby at 30: A Community Built from Imperfection
December 19, 2025 How Ruby, Parser Theory, and Linguistic Precision Solved a Problem No One Wanted At RubyWorld Conference 2025, Mu-Fan Teng (鄧慕凡)—founder of 5xRuby and long-time Ruby community leader—presented a talk that quietly demonstrated something powerful: compiler theory is not limited to programming languages. In “Parsing Taiwanese Like Code”, Teng showed how a real-world … Continue reading Parsing Taiwanese Like Code
December 18, 2025 Running PicoRuby on an ESP32 is absolutely possible — but today it is not straightforward, and most guides omit critical details. This article consolidates everything that actually matters, based on real-world setup, debugging, and integration with ESP-IDF 5.5. If you follow this guide exactly, you will end with: PicoRuby running on an … Continue reading A Definitive Guide to Running PicoRuby on ESP32 (ESP-IDF 5.x)
Why Ruby Still Has Unexplored Frontiers Why Ruby Still Has Unexplored Frontiers For many developers, Ruby is synonymous with Rails, web applications, and backend services. That association is understandable—and well earned—but it is also incomplete. Ruby has always been more than a framework or a web stack. It is a language designed for human expression, … Continue reading PicoRuby: Ruby Beyond Rails
December 17, 2025 Metaprogramming has always been one of Ruby’s most powerful — and most intimidating — features. While the book Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta is widely regarded as a classic, many developers share the same experience: it’s brilliant, but hard to truly internalize by just reading it. In a talk presented at RubyWorld … Continue reading From Reading to Mastery: Turning Metaprogramming Ruby into a Hands-On Learning Platform
December 16, 2025 Inspired by Miyuki Koshiba’s talk at RubyWorld Conference 2025 At RubyWorld Conference 2025, Miyuki Koshiba presented a talk that challenges one of our most ingrained assumptions as developers: that code is something abstract, invisible, and detached from the physical world. Her presentation, “Tangible Code: Rubyで『見て・触れて・変えてわかる』コードのしくみ”, explores a powerful idea — what if … Continue reading Tangible Code: Making Ruby Visible, Touchable, and Understandable
December 15, 2025 Lessons from Ruby World Conference 2025 At Ruby World Conference 2025, Masatoshi Seki (関 将俊) and Miwa Fukaya (深谷 美和) presented a talk grounded in something rare in our industry: more than 20 years of real testing history. Their presentation, “How to Create Today’s Recommended Tests”, introduces Ninja Testing — a testing … Continue reading Smart Test Suites with Ruby
Building LLM-Powered Applications in Ruby: A Practical Introduction December 12, 2025 (Based on Koichi Ito’s “Ruby × LLM Ecosystem” presentation at Ruby World Conference 2025)** Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from experimental chatbots to foundational components of modern software. They now augment workflows in customer support, content generation, data analysis, and even development … Continue reading Building LLM-Powered Applications in Ruby: A Practical Introduction
Exploring the World of Electronic Engineering with PicoRuby December 11, 2025 Based on the presentation “Exploring the World of Electronic Engineering with PicoRuby” 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 “Why Now Is the Right Time for PicoRuby”, 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
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