Imprint: Signed, Expiring Image Rendering with Dynamic Watermarks in Ruby

January 21, 2026 Distributing images securely is a recurring challenge in modern web applications. Whether for previews, confidential documents, or paid content, developers often need to ensure that images are not reused, hotlinked, or accessed indefinitely. Imprint is a Ruby gem that addresses this problem by providing signed, time-limited image rendering with dynamic watermarks, allowing … Continue reading Imprint: Signed, Expiring Image Rendering with Dynamic Watermarks in Ruby →

map_view — Server-side maps for Ruby on Rails

For years, maps in Rails applications have lived almost entirely on the frontend:JavaScript libraries, external APIs, keys, variable costs, and a fair amount of friction. map_view starts from a simple question: What if maps in Rails were as simple as rendering a view? <%= map_for @locations %> That’s it. What is map_view? map_view is a … Continue reading map_view — Server-side maps for Ruby on Rails →

libgd-gis v0.2.7.pre.alpha.1

January 16, 2026 Testing GIS animations in Ruby (exploratory work) Today, early in the morning, after releasing GIF and animation support in ruby-libgd, together with updated documentation, versioning, and examples, I decided to do something very concrete: spend the entire day stress-testing the alpha version of libgd-gis. And what better way to test animations than … Continue reading libgd-gis v0.2.7.pre.alpha.1 →

Ruby Now Has an Animated Map Engine (Alpha Preview)

Ruby Now Has an Animated Map Engine January 15, 2026 Building real-time, animated maps in pure Ruby — no JavaScript required. A new class of maps for Ruby Over the past weeks, we’ve been extending ruby-libgd and libgd-gis far beyond static image rendering. What started as a raster + GIS toolkit is now evolving into … Continue reading Ruby Now Has an Animated Map Engine (Alpha Preview) →

ruby-libgd v0.2.2 — Text & Layout Foundations for Ruby Graphics

Text & Layout Foundations for Ruby Graphics January 14, 2026 The biggest limitation of most Ruby image libraries is not pixels — it’s text. Fonts, labels, positioning, alignment, rotation, and layout are what separate a toy renderer from a real graphics engine. Until now, ruby-libgd only exposed a very minimal wrapper around FreeType. It worked, … Continue reading ruby-libgd v0.2.2 — Text & Layout Foundations for Ruby Graphics →

libgd-gis moves into serious cartography territory

January 13, 2026 Rivers of Europe and Entre Ríos rendered directly in Ruby Today marks a major milestone for libgd-gis: we crossed from “experimental map renderer” into a real GIS-grade drawing engine. Using nothing but Ruby + libgd, we are now able to render continent-scale river networks, provincial hydrology, and complex GeoJSON layers with proper … Continue reading libgd-gis moves into serious cartography territory →

Some fresh Ruby GIS gossip

January 8, 2026 I’ve been quietly working on two Ruby libraries that are starting to click together in a really interesting way: libgd-gis — the GIS brain: maps, basemaps, lines, polygons ruby-libgd — the raster engine: pixels, alpha, image scaling, compositing Over the last days I added: lines, polygons and basemap switching to libgd-gis (0.1.3) … Continue reading Some fresh Ruby GIS gossip →

How Ruby Powers One of the Most Complex Healthcare Systems in the World

Inside DENTIS, the cloud dental platform built by Medley, Inc. In 2025, at RubyWorld Conference, Toshio Maki — Engineering Manager and Head of the Dental Clinic Business Unit at Medley, Inc. — presented one of the most impressive real-world applications of Ruby in modern healthcare p30-2. The talk, titled: “Ruby powering Dental DX – Development … Continue reading How Ruby Powers One of the Most Complex Healthcare Systems in the World →

🎉 RubyStackNews.com Is Reaching the World! 🌍

🌍 RubyStackNews.com Is Reaching the World! Today I’m feeling incredibly grateful — RubyStackNews.com has been visited by people from more than 25 different countries! 🚀 It’s amazing to see developers, tech enthusiasts, and Ruby fans come together from all over the globe to explore ideas, tools, and best practices. Here are just some of the … Continue reading 🎉 RubyStackNews.com Is Reaching the World! 🌍 →

🚀 Exciting News for Ruby Developers!

I’m thrilled to share my dedicated Twitter account for Ruby developers :🐦 @Ruby_Stack_News | https://x.com/ruby_stack_news Why follow?✅ Daily Ruby tips & tricks to level up your coding.✅ Latest updates from the Ruby ecosystem (Rails, gems, tools).✅ Actionable tutorials for developers of all levels.✅ Community highlights (open-source projects, events, jobs). Calling all Ruby enthusiasts!Whether you’re a … Continue reading 🚀 Exciting News for Ruby Developers! →