What’s this? DragonRuby Game Toolkit

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

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

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

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 →

ruby-libgd: The Modern Ruby Image Library You’ve Been Sleeping On

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

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 →

The Odin Project: Why It’s One of the Best Ways to Learn Web Development

March 24, 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 & battle-tested Try the Live Demo → Read Docs If you’re looking for a structured, … Continue reading The Odin Project: Why It’s One of the Best Ways to Learn Web Development →

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Nobody expects Ruby to process medical images. That is exactly why I tried it. This article is about building a medical image analysis prototype in pure Ruby using ruby-libgd as the rendering and pixel manipulation engine. No Python. No … Continue reading Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor →

FastImage Overview

FastImage Overview March 20, 2026 The Gem: Fetch image dimensions and type without downloading the entire file. The Problem Your app needs image dimensions from remote URLs (S3, CDN, etc.). Downloading 5MB just to learn the size is wasteful. The Solution FastImage reads only the file headers—typically 1-16KB—to determine size and type. Key Features Pure … Continue reading FastImage Overview →

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 →