Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation

Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation March 9, 2026 Open-source development is often a marathon, not a sprint. Today, ruby-libgd, a Ruby library for image generation, has reached an exciting milestone: 3,000 downloads. This achievement reflects not only adoption but also the sustained effort behind a library that brings dynamic image … Continue reading Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation →

Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0

Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0 March 4, 2026 Image processing is usually associated with languages like Python or C++, but Ruby can also manipulate images efficiently thanks to bindings for native libraries. One of those libraries is libgd, a well-known C library used to dynamically generate and manipulate images such as … Continue reading Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0 →

🇯🇵 Kaigi 2026 Is Approaching — Why the Global Ruby Community Should Pay Close Attention

Kaigi 2026 Is Approaching — Why the Global Ruby Community Should Pay Close Attention March 2, 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 & … Continue reading 🇯🇵 Kaigi 2026 Is Approaching — Why the Global Ruby Community Should Pay Close Attention →

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. →