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MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails April 12, 2026 After an extensive development journey, MapView has arrived: a powerful API for generating map images directly from your Ruby server. What is MapView? MapView is a Ruby gem that enables you to render maps, routes, points, and polygons with zoom levels ranging from a global world … Continue reading MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails
Building a Complete GIS Stack in Rails: ruby-libgd + libgd-gis + map_view April 10, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → Over the past few months I’ve been working on a small GIS-oriented stack in … Continue reading Building a Complete GIS Stack in Rails: ruby-libgd + libgd-gis + map_view
The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won April 2, 2026 🚀 See the LIVE DEMO in action MapView Render maps directly from your backend no external APIs required. Fast, controlled, and production-ready. Try the demo → fter teaching different AIs the ruby-libgd interfaces, I proposed a competition: Who could create the most creative and beautiful … Continue reading The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won
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
The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events March 8, 2026 For many developers who experienced the early days of the hacker culture and the free software movement, programming once had a different rhythm. It was exploratory. Curious. Creative. Developers wrote small tools, scripts, and experiments simply because they could. Those scripts often solved … Continue reading The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events
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
Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5) March 3, 2026 Today I implemented support for custom convolution filters in Ruby-LibGD, enabling the application of kernels such as blur, sharpen, and edge detection directly from Ruby. At first glance, this may look like just another image filter. In reality, convolution is … Continue reading Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5)
Not a tutorial, not a benchmark — just experimenting with 2D and 3D rendering in Ruby and confirming that the foundation is already mature and reliable. Links: https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-libgd https://github.com/ggerman/ruby-libgd # frozen_string_literal: true require "gd" W = 1400 H = 500 TEXT = "Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4" FONT = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf" SIZE = 72 DEPTH = 32 img = … Continue reading A quick DEMO of Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4.
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