Tag: Ruby

Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues

Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues July 1, 2026 Teams adopting Bundler 4 can breathe a little easier. After several weeks of community reports and investigation, the remaining compatibility issues between Dependabot and Bundler 4 have now been addressed through merged fixes in dependabot-core. The fixes resolve two separate issues that affected projects relying … Continue reading Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues →

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 2): Modern Creational and Structural Patterns

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 2): Modern Creational and Structural Patterns June 28, 2026 In the first article of this series, we explored why Ruby changes the way developers think about design patterns. Features like duck typing, modules, blocks, and delegation often replace the ceremony required in more rigid object-oriented languages. Now it's time … Continue reading Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 2): Modern Creational and Structural Patterns →

How Ruby Itself Uses Dependabot: A Look Behind MRI’s Dependency Management

How Ruby Itself Uses Dependabot: A Look Behind MRI's Dependency Management June 23, 2026 When people think about Dependabot, they usually picture a Rails application keeping its gems up to date. But Ruby itself—the MRI interpreter—also relies on Dependabot to automate dependency updates. Its configuration offers an interesting glimpse into how the Ruby core team … Continue reading How Ruby Itself Uses Dependabot: A Look Behind MRI’s Dependency Management →

Can Ruby Next Help You Upgrade an Application Gradually?

Can Ruby Next Help You Upgrade an Application Gradually? June 21, 2026 Upgrading a Ruby application is rarely as simple as changing the version number. Dependencies, deployment pipelines, CI environments, and legacy code often mean that a runtime upgrade becomes a project of its own. As a result, many teams postpone adopting newer Ruby language … Continue reading Can Ruby Next Help You Upgrade an Application Gradually? →

Herb and ReActionView: A Glimpse Into the Future of Rails Views

Herb and ReActionView: A Glimpse Into the Future of Rails Views June 18, 2026 For years, Rails developers have enjoyed one of the simplest and most productive ways to build web applications: write HTML with ERB, let Action View render the templates, and move on. While the Ruby language, the parser, and the tooling ecosystem … Continue reading Herb and ReActionView: A Glimpse Into the Future of Rails Views →

Inside Ruby’s Object Model

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 →

ruby-libgd Cheat Sheet: Building Native Graphics Pipelines in Ruby

ruby-libgd Cheat Sheet: Building Native Graphics Pipelines in Ruby May 20, 2026 Modern Ruby applications rarely interact directly with native graphics pipelines. Most projects delegate image processing to external tools, shell commands, or heavyweight libraries like ImageMagick. But underneath many rendering systems lies a smaller, older, and surprisingly powerful engine: libgd. The ruby-libgd project brings … Continue reading ruby-libgd Cheat Sheet: Building Native Graphics Pipelines in Ruby →

Inside Ruby’s net/http: Exploring the Networking Engine Behind Ruby APIs

May 19, 2026 Most Ruby developers use HTTP every day. Whether through: Rails API integrations webhooks OAuth providers payment gateways microservices REST clients …underneath the stack, many requests still pass through Ruby’s classic net/http. But few developers ever explore how it actually works internally. Inside Ruby’s standard library lives a surprisingly sophisticated networking engine featuring: … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s net/http: Exploring the Networking Engine Behind Ruby APIs →

Inside Ruby’s JSON Library: Complete Deep Dive

May 18, 2026 Introduction This tutorial explores the internals of the JSON library used by entity ["software","Ruby","CRuby interpreter"]. The archive contains: Native C parser implementation Native C generator implementation SIMD optimizations Floating-point conversion algorithms Buffer management infrastructure Ruby wrapper APIs JSON additions for Ruby core classes Build system integration Repository structure: json/ ├── parser/ │ … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s JSON Library: Complete Deep Dive →

Inside Ruby’s Range: A Tour Through range.c

May 18, 2026 Most Ruby developers use ranges every day: (1..5) ('a'..'z') (1...) (..10) They feel lightweight, expressive, and almost deceptively simple. 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 … Continue reading Inside Ruby’s Range: A Tour Through range.c →