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The Original Sin, the Scorpion, and Local AI June 1, 2026 For the last few weeks, I have been experimenting with local AI models to help me develop and maintain Ruby projects. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly from your Rails backend. Fast rendering, zero external dependencies, … Continue reading The Original Sin, the Scorpion, and Local AI
Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase May 28, 2026 Ruby Stack News — by Germán Silva There's a quiet revolution happening in developer tooling, and it doesn't require a cloud subscription, an API key, or sending your proprietary code to someone else's server. Over the … Continue reading Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase
Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs May 27, 2026 Ruby ships with a standard library gem named openssl, responsible for exposing cryptographic primitives, TLS/SSL sockets, certificates, digests, encryption, and secure communication APIs directly to Ruby developers. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly … Continue reading Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs
May 26, 2026 Ruby’s elegance hides an extremely sophisticated runtime underneath. Features like blocks, lambdas, closures, binding, method(:foo), and even &:to_s rely on a dense set of VM internals implemented in CRuby’s proc.c. This file is one of the best entry points for understanding how Ruby models executable code objects. The source analyzed here comes … Continue reading Understanding Ruby Proc Internals Through proc.c
May 19, 2026 Most Ruby developers use HTTP every day. Whether through: Rails API integrations webhooks OAuth providers payment gateways microservices REST clients …underneath the stack, many requests still pass through Ruby’s classic net/http. But few developers ever explore how it actually works internally. Inside Ruby’s standard library lives a surprisingly sophisticated networking engine featuring: … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s net/http: Exploring the Networking Engine Behind Ruby APIs
May 18, 2026 Introduction This tutorial explores the internals of the JSON library used by entity ["software","Ruby","CRuby interpreter"]. The archive contains: Native C parser implementation Native C generator implementation SIMD optimizations Floating-point conversion algorithms Buffer management infrastructure Ruby wrapper APIs JSON additions for Ruby core classes Build system integration Repository structure: json/ ├── parser/ │ … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s JSON Library: Complete Deep Dive
May 14, 2026 In-depth technical analysis · RubyStackNews · Concurrency & Performance For decades, the Global VM Lock (GVL) — also known as the GIL — was CRuby's great concession: the safety and simplicity of an object model free of data races, in exchange for not being able to execute Ruby code in parallel within … Continue reading Ractors: Real Parallelism in Ruby Without the GVL
Ruby Numeric Deep Dive: Useful Methods You Probably Underuse (With Examples) May 13, 2026 Ruby Numeric Deep Dive: Useful Methods You Probably Underuse (With Examples) Ruby’s Numeric, Integer, Float, and Math modules expose a rich API that goes far beyond basic arithmetic. This guide focuses on useful, practical methods, with clear examples and real-world use … Continue reading Ruby Numeric Deep Dive: Useful Methods You Probably Underuse (With Examples)
Introducing ruby-charts: Native Charts for Ruby May 10, 2026 Last Friday I released ruby-charts, a gem for generating charts directly in Ruby—no JavaScript, no external APIs. 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 → … Continue reading 🚀 Introducing ruby-charts: Native Charts for Ruby
May 7, 2026 Modern chart rendering usually assumes a browser, a JavaScript runtime, or a frontend stack. But many Ruby applications do not actually need interactive dashboards. They need deterministic image generation. Things like: scheduled reports PDF exports transactional emails admin dashboards analytics snapshots CI metrics server-side rendering pipelines That was the motivation behind building … Continue reading Generating Charts in Pure Ruby Without JavaScript
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