Category: Software Development

2D Histograms in Pure Ruby

2D Histograms in Pure Ruby March 18, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews One of the most useful tools in exploratory data analysis is the 2D histogram. Not the bar chart kind — the density map kind. Given a cloud of points, it answers a simple question: where do most of them live? This article shows how … Continue reading 2D Histograms in Pure Ruby →

Ruby on Rails — Complete Reference of Methods, Classes & Features Not in Ruby

Ruby on Rails — Complete Reference of Methods, Classes & Features Not in Ruby March 17, 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 & … Continue reading Ruby on Rails — Complete Reference of Methods, Classes & Features Not in Ruby →

SVG Generation in Ruby: A Practical Guide

SVG Generation in Ruby: A Practical Guide March 16, 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 … Continue reading SVG Generation in Ruby: A Practical Guide →

Ruby for Data Science — Is It Possible?

March 16, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews After the last article, Jupyter proved to be an awesome sandbox for testing code interactively. I spent the entire weekend asking myself one question: can Ruby render a real 3D plot? I started convinced the answer was no. By Sunday night, ruby-libgd had proven me wrong. The question nobody … Continue reading Ruby for Data Science — Is It Possible? →

Plotting Mathematical Functions in Ruby, Inside Jupyter

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: TracePoint, ISeq, and why your choice of debugger affects more than just comfort

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 →

Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: A Full-Stack, In-Browser Journey

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 →

Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation

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

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 →