Ruby 4 & Rails 8: A Multi-Front Acceleration of the Ruby Ecosystem

February 26, 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 In recent years, Ruby and Ruby … Continue reading Ruby 4 & Rails 8: A Multi-Front Acceleration of the Ruby Ecosystem →

🧠 Pluggable Garbage Collectors in Ruby: Exploring the New Modular GC API

February 23, 2026 Ruby has traditionally shipped with a single, built-in garbage collector tightly coupled to the VM. With Ruby 3.4, that assumption begins to change. Feature #20470 introduces an experimental Modular Garbage Collector API, allowing CRuby to load alternative GC implementations at runtime. This marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in Ruby’s … Continue reading 🧠 Pluggable Garbage Collectors in Ruby: Exploring the New Modular GC API →

🌍 Rendering Maps by Name: Symbolic Geographic Extents in Ruby

Working with maps usually means working with numbers — lots of numbers. If you want to render a map of a country, region, or continent, you normally need to know its exact bounding box: bbox = [-73.6, -55.1, -53.6, -21.7] # Argentina Not exactly readable. Not memorable. Not friendly. What if you could just say: … Continue reading 🌍 Rendering Maps by Name: Symbolic Geographic Extents in Ruby →

From Delayed Job to Solid Queue: How a 10-Year Rails App Finally Achieved Linear Scaling

From Delayed Job to Solid Queue: How a 10-Year Rails App Finally Achieved Linear Scaling February 16, 2026 Lessons from Kaigi on Rails 2025 — Shohei Kobayashi 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 From Delayed Job to Solid Queue: How a 10-Year Rails App Finally Achieved Linear Scaling →

Designing Safe Parallelism in Rails

Designing Safe Parallelism in Rails February 12, 2026 Eliminating Connection Pool Exhaustion in Production At Kaigi on Rails 2025, 片田恭平 (@katakyo) delivered a deeply practical talk titled: “もう並列実行は怖くない — コネクション枯渇解消のための実践的アプローチ” (“Parallel Execution Is No Longer Scary — A Practical Approach to Eliminating Connection Pool Exhaustion”) もう並列実行は怖くない__コネクション枯渇解消のための実践的ア… This session explored a real-world scaling problem inside … Continue reading Designing Safe Parallelism in Rails →

When Maps Explain Themselves: Legends, Style, and Finished Images in Ruby

February 10, 2026 Introduction libgd-gis now supports legends, introducing a fundamental building block in map communication. With the release of v0.4.1, legends become a first-class feature of the rendering pipeline, pushing the library one step closer to covering the essential capabilities expected from a modern GIS engine. Legends are not just a visual accessory. They … Continue reading When Maps Explain Themselves: Legends, Style, and Finished Images in Ruby →

A quick DEMO of Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4.

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 Not a tutorial, not a benchmark — just experimenting … Continue reading A quick DEMO of Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4. →

Opening the Heart of libgd-gis

Opening the Heart of libgd-gis February 3, 2026 How Ruby Turns Coordinates into Maps (and Why Tests Matter) Maps look simple on the surface. You give them coordinates. They give you an image. But anyone who has gone even slightly deeper knows that coordinates are never just numbers. They are context. They are assumptions. They … Continue reading Opening the Heart of libgd-gis →

Making Maps with Ruby

Making Maps with Ruby January 29, 2026 Static and animated cartography built directly from GeoJSON For a long time, generating maps from code meant working inside heavy ecosystems designed primarily for analysis. Those tools are powerful, but they are not always the right fit. In many practical scenarios, the problem is simpler and more concrete: … Continue reading Making Maps with Ruby →

Ruby Rendering Seismic Observation Data

January 27, 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 From Disaster Prevention to High-Performance Maps … Continue reading Ruby Rendering Seismic Observation Data →