Tag: Ruby

🧠 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 →

🧪 Ruby in the Browser? Exploring Rubox and the Future of Ruby WASM

February 22, 2026 A fully client-side Ruby playground powered by WebAssembly — promising, experimental, and not quite ready for prime time Running Ruby directly inside the browser has long been a dream for educators, tooling developers, and the Ruby core community. Thanks to WebAssembly (WASM), that vision is no longer theoretical. Rubox, a browser-based Ruby … Continue reading 🧪 Ruby in the Browser? Exploring Rubox and the Future of Ruby WASM →

🧠 RubyKaigi 2024: A Deep Technical Shift in Ruby’s Standard Library (With Real Examples)

February 20, 2026 RubyKaigi 2024 — Historical ContextAlthough this presentation discusses Ruby 3.4–3.5 and the ecosystem has already moved forward to Ruby 4 by 2026, the strategic shift it describes — reducing the traditional standard library and externalizing functionality as gems — represents a fundamental change in Ruby’s philosophy rather than a version-specific roadmap.Understanding this … Continue reading 🧠 RubyKaigi 2024: A Deep Technical Shift in Ruby’s Standard Library (With Real Examples) →

Rails 8 Authentication: Why the New Built-in Generator Matters (and What It Means for Devise)

February 16, 2026 In 2025, at Rails g authentication from Kaigi on Rails 2025, developer Shinichi Maeshima presented an insightful talk on Rails 8’s new rails g authentication generator and its implications for how we build authentication in Rails apps. Rails has long given developers the building blocks for authentication — has_secure_password, session cookies, and … Continue reading Rails 8 Authentication: Why the New Built-in Generator Matters (and What It Means for Devise) →

Rails Meets PostgreSQL 18

February 11, 2026 Compatibility, Protocol Changes, and Virtual Generated Columns in Rails 8.1 At Kaigi on Rails 2025, Rails Committer Yasuo Honda delivered a deep technical walkthrough titled: Rails meets PostgreSQL 18 PostgreSQL 18 was officially released on September 25, 2025, and the talk explains how Rails adapts — not just at the marketing level, … Continue reading Rails Meets PostgreSQL 18 →

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 →

Only 3% Got It Right: 5 Dangerous Ruby on Rails Code Patterns from RubyKaigi

Only 3% Got It Right: 5 Dangerous Ruby on Rails Code Patterns from RubyKaigi February 9, 2026 At RubyKaigi 2025, a deceptively simple Rails code quiz was presented at a booth. It looked like everyday production code — nothing exotic, no trick questions. About 100 developers attempted it. Only 3 answered everything correctly. This article … Continue reading Only 3% Got It Right: 5 Dangerous Ruby on Rails Code Patterns from RubyKaigi →

A quick DEMO of Ruby-LibGD v0.2.4.

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. →

Kamal in the Real World: Lessons from Running Rails Apps on AWS

February 4, 2026 At Kaigi on Rails 2025, one talk stood out for being refreshingly honest about infrastructure. Not a tutorial. Not a product pitch. But a real report from production. In Hall Blue, yappu presented: “Kamalって便利？社内プロジェクト3つをKamal + AWSで運用した体験談” (Is Kamal useful? Operating three internal projects with Kamal + AWS) What followed was exactly the … Continue reading Kamal in the Real World: Lessons from Running Rails Apps on AWS →

Introducing Type Guard to Steep

Introducing Type Guard to Steep February 2, 2026 Type Narrowing for Real-World Ruby Applications Based on the RubyKaigi 2025 talk “Introducing Type Guard to Steep” by Takeshi Komiya CTO at Time Intermedia Inc., maintainer of rbs_rails and Rails type generators. Presented at RubyKaigi 2025. Context and Attribution This article is a technical analysis and expansion … Continue reading Introducing Type Guard to Steep →