Tag: 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.

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 Demo → Read Docs Not a tutorial, not a benchmark — just experimenting … 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 →

Breaking Rules to Ship Products: Lessons from RubyConf Thailand

February 2, 2026 Inspired by Onur Ozer’s talk at RubyConf Thailand (Jan 2026) There’s a specific kind of talk that quietly stays with you long after the conference ends. Not because it introduced a new framework, or a clever optimization, but because it articulated something many of us feel while building products with Ruby on … Continue reading Breaking Rules to Ship Products: Lessons from RubyConf Thailand →

Making Maps with Ruby

Making Maps with Ruby January 29, 2026 Static and animated cartography built directly from GeoJSON For a long time, generating maps from code meant working inside heavy ecosystems designed primarily for analysis. Those tools are powerful, but they are not always the right fit. In many practical scenarios, the problem is simpler and more concrete: … Continue reading Making Maps with Ruby →

Understanding TypeProf: Design Goals, Limitations, and Effective Use in Ruby

Understanding TypeProf: Design Goals, Limitations, and Effective Use in Ruby January 28, 2026 TypeProf is an official type inference tool for Ruby that has gained attention as part of the ecosystem surrounding RBS, Steep, and Sorbet. Despite this visibility, it is frequently misunderstood and often perceived as “not working” by first-time users. This article analyzes … Continue reading Understanding TypeProf: Design Goals, Limitations, and Effective Use in Ruby →

libgd-gis: A Practical GIS Rendering Engine for Ruby

January 23, 2026 Raster maps, GeoJSON overlays, and real-world cartography — without leaving Ruby. Over the last months, I’ve been working on libgd-gis, a GIS rendering engine built on top of libgd and designed specifically for Ruby developers who need static map generation without relying on browser-based toolchains or heavyweight GIS stacks. This article walks … Continue reading libgd-gis: A Practical GIS Rendering Engine for Ruby →

Running Notebooks the Ruby Way: From PoC to Production with RubyPyMill

Senior Ruby Engineer · Open-Source Author (ruby-libgd, libgd-gis) · FinTech & GIS January 20, 2026 In modern development teams, Proofs of Concept (PoC) are everywhere. They usually start as Jupyter notebooks: quick experiments, charts, metrics, comparisons, and visual insights. They work well for exploration — but too often, they stop there. The knowledge stays locked … Continue reading Running Notebooks the Ruby Way: From PoC to Production with RubyPyMill →

Ruby Can Draw Cities Now

January 9, 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 Demo → Read Docs How I built a pure-Ruby GIS … Continue reading Ruby Can Draw Cities Now →