The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won

The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won April 2, 2026 πŸš€ 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 β†’ fter teaching different AIs the ruby-libgd interfaces, I proposed a competition: Who could create the most creative and beautiful … Continue reading The AI Art Competition That Nobody Won

Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production

Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production March 31, 2026 The Love Affair πŸš€ 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 β†’ You know the feeling. Local machine, Rails server running, something breaks. You glance … Continue reading Rails Logs: A Blessing in Development, a Headache in Production

From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days

From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days March 31, 2026 πŸš€ 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 β†’ It happened on a Tuesday. I was writing a small microservice … Continue reading From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days

libgd-gis: Filling Ruby’s Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem

libgd-gis: Filling Ruby's Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem March 26, 2026 For years, generating map tiles, GIS visualizations, and fast raster graphics in Ruby has been a painful experience. ImageMagick derivatives were slow. External services added latency and complexity. The old ruby-gd binding languished unmaintained. Then ruby-libgd arrived - a modern, actively maintained binding … Continue reading libgd-gis: Filling Ruby’s Graphics Gap and Building an Ecosystem

FFI: How Ruby Talks to C

March 25, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews 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. βœ“ Zero external dependencies βœ“ Lightning-fast rendering βœ“ Production-ready & battle-tested Try the Live Demo β†’ Read Docs Ruby is a … Continue reading FFI: How Ruby Talks to C

The Odin Project: Why It’s One of the Best Ways to Learn Web Development

March 24, 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. βœ“ Zero external dependencies βœ“ Lightning-fast rendering βœ“ Production-ready & battle-tested Try the Live Demo β†’ Read Docs If you’re looking for a structured, … Continue reading The Odin Project: Why It’s One of the Best Ways to Learn Web Development

Choosing the Right Debugger: TracePoint, ISeq, and why your choice of debugger affects more than just comfort

Choosing the Right Debugger March 12, 2026 A Ruby Developer's Guide to TracePoint, ISeq, and why your choice of debugger affects more than just comfort If you write Ruby, you debug Ruby. Whether it's a subtle off-by-one error in a data pipeline or a race condition buried in a Rails controller, debugging is as much … Continue reading Choosing the Right Debugger: TracePoint, ISeq, and why your choice of debugger affects more than just comfort

Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: A Full-Stack, In-Browser Journey

March 11, 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 β†’ Read Docs βœ“ No API fees βœ“ Self-hosted βœ“ Rails Native βœ“ Fast Rendering Why developers switch Replace expensive map stacks. Stop relying … Continue reading Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: A Full-Stack, In-Browser Journey

Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation

Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation March 9, 2026 Open-source development is often a marathon, not a sprint. Today, ruby-libgd, a Ruby library for image generation, has reached an exciting milestone: 3,000 downloads. This achievement reflects not only adoption but also the sustained effort behind a library that brings dynamic image … Continue reading Ruby-LibGD Reaches 3,000 Downloads: A Milestone in Ruby Image Generation

The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events

The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events March 8, 2026 For many developers who experienced the early days of the hacker culture and the free software movement, programming once had a different rhythm. It was exploratory. Curious. Creative. Developers wrote small tools, scripts, and experiments simply because they could. Those scripts often solved … Continue reading The Joy of Small Scripts: Automating Ruby Community Events