RubyKaigi 2026: A Reminder of What Innovation Actually Looks Like

RubyKaigi 2026: A Reminder of What Innovation Actually Looks Like April 15, 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 … Continue reading RubyKaigi 2026: A Reminder of What Innovation Actually Looks Like →

Building MapView: Architecture, CI/CD, and Production Deployment on Railway

Building MapView: Architecture, CI/CD, and Production Deployment on Railway April 13, 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 → Introduction MapView is a server-side map rendering engine for Rails that generates high-quality geographic visualizations without external … Continue reading Building MapView: Architecture, CI/CD, and Production Deployment on Railway →

MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails

MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails April 12, 2026 After an extensive development journey, MapView has arrived: a powerful API for generating map images directly from your Ruby server. What is MapView? MapView is a Ruby gem that enables you to render maps, routes, points, and polygons with zoom levels ranging from a global world … Continue reading MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails →

Pure Ruby Maps: libgd-gis + Rails

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 →

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 →

From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days

From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days March 31, 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 → It happened on a Tuesday. I was writing a small microservice … Continue reading From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days →

GitHub Deletes Your Traffic Logs Every 14 Days. Here’s How to Stop That with Ruby

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 →

FFI: How Ruby Talks to C

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 →

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 →