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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
Turning Years of Ruby Knowledge Into a Local Coding Assistant June 1, 2026 Introduction Over the years, most Ruby developers accumulate a vast amount of knowledge. Not just source code, but articles, documentation, experiments, bug fixes, pull requests, design decisions, and lessons learned from maintaining production systems. The problem is that this knowledge often remains … Continue reading Turning Years of Ruby Knowledge Into a Local Coding Assistant
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 21, 2026 How MRI Really Implements include, prepend, extend, Singleton Classes and Method Lookup Ruby’s object model looks elegant from the outside: module Logging def call puts "before" super end end class Service prepend Logging def call puts "service" end end But internally, MRI/CRuby performs a surprising amount of machinery to make this work. … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s Object Model
May 18, 2026 Most Ruby developers use ranges every day: (1..5) ('a'..'z') (1...) (..10) They feel lightweight, expressive, and almost deceptively simple. 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 … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s Range: A Tour Through range.c
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
May 12, 2026 If you still think Ruby’s Array is “just a C struct with some methods on top,” you’re about 5 years out of date. Modern MRI tells a very different story. Today, Array sits at the intersection of: Ruby code (array.rb) VM intrinsics (Primitive.*) C runtime (array.c) JIT specialization (YJIT) And the result … Continue reading MRI Internals: How Ruby Arrays Became a VM Playground
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
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