libgd-gis: Filling Ruby's Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem March 26, 2026 For years, generating map tiles, GIS visualizations, and fast raster graphics in Ruby has been a painful experience. ImageMagick derivatives were slow. External services added latency and complexity. The old ruby-gd binding languished unmaintained. Then ruby-libgd arrived - a modern, actively maintained binding … Continue reading libgd-gis: Filling Ruby’s Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem →