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January 5, 2026 How ruby-libgd brings a real raster engine back to Ruby For many years, Ruby quietly lost something fundamental: The ability to generate images natively, fast, and with full control. Yes, RMagick and MiniMagick exist. But they depend on external binaries, are slow, fragile in production, and unsuitable for things like: map tile … Continue reading Ruby Can Create Images Again
Ruby on Rails Developer | Ruby, Backend January 2, 2026 In late 2025, during a RubyConf presentation about disaster-response systems, an uncomfortable truth was stated publicly: Generating map tiles and images on the server is difficult in Ruby. RMagick and MiniMagick were too slow. ruby-gd is used, but it is poorly maintained. This was not … Continue reading Rebuilding Ruby’s Image Processing Layer: Why ruby-libgd Matters for GIS and the Future of Ruby
Ruby 4 with Ruby::BOX December 24, 2025 Ruby 4 introduces one of the most important runtime features in the history of the language: Ruby::BOX. It allows Ruby to execute multiple isolated class worlds inside the same process, finally making it possible to load conflicting libraries, plugins, and user code safely. In this guide we will … Continue reading Running Ruby 4 with Ruby::BOX inside Docker (Alpine)
December 22, 2025 Reflections from RubyRelease30th and Matz’s Keynote As 2025 comes to an end and Ruby moves closer to the long-awaited release of Ruby 4, the Ruby Release 30th Anniversary Party, held on December 20, felt like more than a commemorative event. It was a moment of reflection—about history, values, and why Ruby continues … Continue reading Ruby at 30: A Community Built from Imperfection
December 17, 2025 Metaprogramming has always been one of Ruby’s most powerful — and most intimidating — features. While the book Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta is widely regarded as a classic, many developers share the same experience: it’s brilliant, but hard to truly internalize by just reading it. In a talk presented at RubyWorld … Continue reading From Reading to Mastery: Turning Metaprogramming Ruby into a Hands-On Learning Platform
Building LLM-Powered Applications in Ruby: A Practical Introduction December 12, 2025 (Based on Koichi Ito’s “Ruby × LLM Ecosystem” presentation at Ruby World Conference 2025)** Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from experimental chatbots to foundational components of modern software. They now augment workflows in customer support, content generation, data analysis, and even development … Continue reading Building LLM-Powered Applications in Ruby: A Practical Introduction
December 10, 2025 Based on the presentation script from RubyWorld Conference 2025 This article is based on the script of the presentation “Why Now Is the Right Time for PicoRuby”, delivered by Hitoshi Hasumi (ANDPAD Inc.) at RubyWorld Conference 2025. The original session was a 30-minute conference talk, and this text adapts its core ideas, … Continue reading Why Now Is the Right Time for PicoRuby
December 8, 2025 The RubyWorld Conference 2025, held in Matsue, Japan, showcased an unexpected star of the ecosystem: Ruby running on microcontrollers. While the event traditionally focuses on Ruby in web, enterprise, or academic settings, this year a significant amount of attention shifted toward embedded systems, thanks to PicoRuby and the community project mruby Girls. … Continue reading RubyWorld Conference 2025: PicoRuby, mruby Girls, and the Future of Embedded Ruby
December 3, 2025 By Germán Silva Bindings are one of the most underrated yet critical pieces of the Ruby ecosystem. They are the bridges that connect Ruby to native libraries, databases, protocols, and even hardware. Bring Your Next Project to Life with High-Quality Development Don’t miss the opportunity to take your project to the next … Continue reading The Ruby Bindings Every Rails Developer Should Know
December 1, 2025 Debugging is one of those tasks that quietly shapes a developer’s day. It’s not flashy, it’s not glamorous, but it’s the difference between smooth development and losing an afternoon wondering why a request refuses to behave. Over the years working with Ruby and Rails, one of the tools I’ve learned to appreciate … Continue reading Debugging in Real Life: How I Use Rails.logger and Docker Logs in My Daily Workflow
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