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April 8, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Static GIS maps, pure Ruby, GeoJSON support, and zero JavaScript bloat. Over 15 years ago, I discovered the GD library at a Linux conference. I was … Continue reading Pure Ruby Maps: libgd-gis + Rails
MapView: Static maps for Rails. No JS. No frontend. Just Ruby. April 7, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → From the creator of ruby-libgd and libgd-gis comes native Rails integration Many of you already … Continue reading MapView: Static maps for Rails. No JS. No frontend. Just Ruby.
What's this? DragonRuby Game Toolkit April 6, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Ruby outside the web browser. On a game cartridge. Sort of. Every so often, something appears in the Ruby world that … Continue reading What’s this? DragonRuby Game Toolkit
This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations April 5, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → A new batch of improvements has landed in the Rails codebase this week, focusing … Continue reading This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations
The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won April 2, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → fter teaching different AIs the ruby-libgd interfaces, I proposed a competition: Who could create the most creative and beautiful … Continue reading The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won
Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production March 31, 2026 The Love Affair 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → You know the feeling. Local machine, Rails server running, something breaks. You glance … Continue reading Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production
GitHub Deletes Your Traffic Logs Every 14 Days. Here's How to Stop That with Ruby March 30, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Motivation: I didn't want to lose the metrics for ruby-libgd and … Continue reading GitHub Deletes Your Traffic Logs Every 14 Days. Here’s How to Stop That with Ruby
ruby-libgd: The Modern Ruby Image Library You've Been Sleeping On March 30, 2026 Reading time: 8 minutes Status: Benchmark-driven, production-ready 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Executive Summary After extensive benchmarking against RMagick, ChunkyPNG, and … Continue reading ruby-libgd: The Modern Ruby Image Library You’ve Been Sleeping On
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
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
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