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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
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.
January 22, 2026 libgd-gis, satellite imagery, and a new way to think about maps Most mapping libraries start from the same place: roads, labels, vectors, tiles. But what happens if the map itself is not the goal? What if the map is just a lens to observe the planet? This article is about how libgd-gis, … Continue reading A New View of Earth, Powered by Ruby
Ruby at the Front Line of Disaster Prevention December 26, 2025 How Tokyo Gas Uses Ruby to Protect Millions of People During Earthquakes Based on the RubyWorld Conference 2025 presentation by Maika Yamaguchi, Tokyo Gas i-Net Corp. When we think about Ruby in production, we usually imagine web platforms, SaaS products, or developer tools. But … Continue reading Ruby at the Front Line of Disaster Prevention
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