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This Week in Rails: Better Guides, Better Framework June 10, 2026 The Rails team had another busy week, shipping documentation improvements, infrastructure updates, and a collection of bug fixes across the framework. Here are some of the highlights. 📚 The Active Job Guide Gets a Major Refresh The revamped Active Job Basics guide is now … Continue reading This Week in Rails: Better Guides, Better Framework
May 21, 2026 How MRI Really Implements include, prepend, extend, Singleton Classes and Method Lookup Ruby’s object model looks elegant from the outside: module Logging def call puts "before" super end end class Service prepend Logging def call puts "service" end end But internally, MRI/CRuby performs a surprising amount of machinery to make this work. … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s Object Model
May 7, 2026 Modern chart rendering usually assumes a browser, a JavaScript runtime, or a frontend stack. But many Ruby applications do not actually need interactive dashboards. They need deterministic image generation. Things like: scheduled reports PDF exports transactional emails admin dashboards analytics snapshots CI metrics server-side rendering pipelines That was the motivation behind building … Continue reading Generating Charts in Pure Ruby Without JavaScript
What RubyGems Stats Actually Reveal About the Ecosystem May 4, 2026 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 → Read Docs ✓ No API fees ✓ Self-hosted ✓ Rails Native ✓ Fast Rendering Why … Continue reading What RubyGems Stats Actually Reveal About the Ecosystem
Opal: Running Ruby in the JavaScript Runtime (Without Losing Your Mind) April 29, 2026 Ruby has always been a server-first language. But what if you could take Ruby beyond MRI and run it directly in the browser, or even on the edge? That’s exactly what Opal enables. Opal is not just a transpiler. It’s a … Continue reading Opal: Running Ruby in the JavaScript Runtime (Without Losing Your Mind)
MapView Flyers are at RubyKaigi 2026 – Here's the Must-Watch Talk Schedule April 22, 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 … Continue reading MapView Flyers are at RubyKaigi 2026 – Here’s the Must-Watch Talk Schedule
RubyKaigi 2026: A Reminder of What Innovation Actually Looks Like April 15, 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 … Continue reading RubyKaigi 2026: A Reminder of What Innovation Actually Looks Like
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
This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations April 5, 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 → A new batch of improvements has landed in the Rails codebase this week, focusing … Continue reading This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations
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