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Plotting Mathematical Functions in Ruby, Inside Jupyter March 13, 2026 ruby-libgd: Scientific Plotting Comes to Ruby The Envy We Never Talked About Anyone who has spent serious time with Ruby and then watched a Python developer type plt.show() to produce a beautiful Matplotlib graph in a Jupyter notebook knows the feeling. It is not quite … Continue reading Plotting Mathematical Functions in Ruby, Inside Jupyter
Choosing the Right Debugger March 12, 2026 A Ruby Developer's Guide to TracePoint, ISeq, and why your choice of debugger affects more than just comfort If you write Ruby, you debug Ruby. Whether it's a subtle off-by-one error in a data pipeline or a race condition buried in a Rails controller, debugging is as much … Continue reading Choosing the Right Debugger: TracePoint, ISeq, and why your choice of debugger affects more than just comfort
March 11, 2026 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 → Read Docs ✓ No API fees ✓ Self-hosted ✓ Rails Native ✓ Fast Rendering Why developers switch Replace expensive map stacks. Stop relying … Continue reading Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: A Full-Stack, In-Browser Journey
mruby Gems: Extending Ruby for Embedded Systems March 11, 2026 Most developers associate Ruby with web development. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails helped Ruby become one of the most productive languages for building web applications. However, Ruby is not limited to servers or web frameworks. Ruby can also run in places far away from data … Continue reading mruby Gems: Extending Ruby for Embedded Systems
Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation March 9, 2026 Open-source development is often a marathon, not a sprint. Today, ruby-libgd, a Ruby library for image generation, has reached an exciting milestone: 3,000 downloads. This achievement reflects not only adoption but also the sustained effort behind a library that brings dynamic image … Continue reading Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation
The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events March 8, 2026 For many developers who experienced the early days of the hacker culture and the free software movement, programming once had a different rhythm. It was exploratory. Curious. Creative. Developers wrote small tools, scripts, and experiments simply because they could. Those scripts often solved … Continue reading The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events
Ruby as an Orchestrator Language March 5, 2026 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 → Read Docs ✓ No API fees ✓ Self-hosted ✓ Rails Native ✓ Fast Rendering Why developers switch Replace … Continue reading Ruby as an Orchestrator Language
Writing Ruby Bindings for C Libraries March 4, 2026 Building Native Extensions with C (and Rust) Ruby is known for its productivity and elegant syntax, but sometimes performance-critical tasks require lower-level languages. Fortunately, Ruby provides a powerful mechanism called C extensions, allowing Ruby code to call native C functions directly. This approach enables Ruby developers … Continue reading Writing Ruby Bindings for C Libraries
Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0 March 4, 2026 Image processing is usually associated with languages like Python or C++, but Ruby can also manipulate images efficiently thanks to bindings for native libraries. One of those libraries is libgd, a well-known C library used to dynamically generate and manipulate images such as … Continue reading Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0
Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5) March 3, 2026 Today I implemented support for custom convolution filters in Ruby-LibGD, enabling the application of kernels such as blur, sharpen, and edge detection directly from Ruby. At first glance, this may look like just another image filter. In reality, convolution is … Continue reading Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5)
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