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January 23, 2026 Raster maps, GeoJSON overlays, and real-world cartography — without leaving Ruby. Over the last months, I’ve been working on libgd-gi...

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, vect...

January 21, 2026 Distributing images securely is a recurring challenge in modern web applications. Whether for previews, confidential documents, or pa...

Senior Ruby Engineer · Open-Source Author (ruby-libgd, libgd-gis) · FinTech & GIS January 20, 2026 In modern development teams, Proofs of Concept ...

For years, maps in Rails applications have lived almost entirely on the frontend:JavaScript libraries, external APIs, keys, variable costs, and a fair...

January 19, 2026 This article documents the current state of libgd-gis following a significant internal update: the stabilization and freeze of its co...

January 16, 2026 Testing GIS animations in Ruby (exploratory work) Today, early in the morning, after releasing GIF and animation support in ruby-libg...

January 15, 2026 Building real-time, animated maps in pure Ruby — no JavaScript required. A new class of maps for Ruby Over the past weeks, we’ve been...

January 14, 2026 The biggest limitation of most Ruby image libraries is not pixels — it’s text. Fonts, labels, positioning, alignment, rotation, and l...

January 13, 2026 Rivers of Europe and Entre Ríos rendered directly in Ruby Today marks a major milestone for libgd-gis: we crossed from “experimental ...

January 12, 2026 Real-world cartography in pure Ruby RubyStackNews — January 2026 From geometry to cities Until recently, libgd-gis could render raw G...

January 9, 2026 How I built a pure-Ruby GIS engine that renders Paris, Tokyo, New York, and more Most people don’t think of Ruby when they think about...

January 8, 2026 I’ve been quietly working on two Ruby libraries that are starting to click together in a really interesting way: Over the last days I ...

January 7, 2026 How libgd-gis turns Ruby into a real GIS engine For many years, Ruby quietly missed something important. Yes, Ruby is amazing at APIs,...

January 6, 2026 Why ruby-libgd is becoming Ruby’s new graphics engine Yesterday something important happened in the Ruby ecosystem. I added a native s...

January 5, 2026 How ruby-libgd brings a real raster engine back to Ruby For many years, Ruby quietly lost something fundamental: The ability to genera...

Ruby on Rails Developer | Ruby, Backend January 2, 2026 In late 2025, during a RubyConf presentation about disaster-response systems, an uncomfortable...

December 31, 2025 How Bloomo built a regulated trading system from scratch By Satoshi Kobayashi (noel), CTO – Bloomo Securities RubyWorld Conference 2...

Inside DENTIS, the cloud dental platform built by Medley, Inc. In 2025, at RubyWorld Conference, Toshio Maki — Engineering Manager and Head of the Den...

December 29, 2025 At RubyWorld Conference 2025 and Kaigi on Rails 2025, a talk by Tomohiro Umeda from RIZAP Technologies quietly delivered one of the ...

December 26, 2025 How Tokyo Gas Uses Ruby to Protect Millions of People During Earthquakes Based on the RubyWorld Conference 2025 presentation by Maik...

December 24, 2025 Ruby 4 introduces one of the most important runtime features in the history of the language: Ruby::BOX. It allows Ruby to execute mu...

December 23, 2025 Inspired by a talk by Yudai Takada (@ydah) at Hokuriku Ruby Kaigi 01 Advertise on RubyStackNews RubyStackNews is a niche publication...

December 22, 2025 Reflections from RubyRelease30th and Matz’s Keynote As 2025 comes to an end and Ruby moves closer to the long-awaited release of Rub...

December 19, 2025 How Ruby, Parser Theory, and Linguistic Precision Solved a Problem No One Wanted At RubyWorld Conference 2025, Mu-Fan Teng (鄧慕凡)—fou...

December 18, 2025 Running PicoRuby on an ESP32 is absolutely possible — but today it is not straightforward, and most guides omit critical details. Th...

Why Ruby Still Has Unexplored Frontiers Why Ruby Still Has Unexplored Frontiers For many developers, Ruby is synonymous with Rails, web applications, ...

December 17, 2025 Metaprogramming has always been one of Ruby’s most powerful — and most intimidating — features. While the book Metaprogramming Ruby ...

December 16, 2025 Inspired by Miyuki Koshiba’s talk at RubyWorld Conference 2025 At RubyWorld Conference 2025, Miyuki Koshiba presented a talk that ch...

December 15, 2025 Lessons from Ruby World Conference 2025 At Ruby World Conference 2025, Masatoshi Seki (関 将俊) and Miwa Fukaya (深谷 美和) presented a tal...

December 12, 2025 (Based on Koichi Ito’s “Ruby × LLM Ecosystem” presentation at Ruby World Conference 2025)** Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidl...

December 11, 2025 Based on the presentation “Exploring the World of Electronic Engineering with PicoRuby” by Hayao Kimura at Ruby World Conference 202...

December 10, 2025 Based on the presentation script from RubyWorld Conference 2025 This article is based on the script of the presentation “Why Now Is ...

December 9, 2025 A curated list of tools that accelerate development and keep your codebase clean One of the most underrated strengths of Ruby on Rail...

December 8, 2025 The RubyWorld Conference 2025, held in Matsue, Japan, showcased an unexpected star of the ecosystem: Ruby running on microcontrollers...

December 5, 2025 A Complete Guide for Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native Developers Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is one of the most misund...

December 4, 2025 Most developers think contributing to Ruby’s internals requires wizard-level C skills, decades of experience, and a direct line to Ma...

December 3, 2025 By Germán Silva Bindings are one of the most underrated yet critical pieces of the Ruby ecosystem. They are the bridges that connect ...

December 2, 2025 In the Ruby and Ruby on Rails ecosystem, developers interact constantly with tools like Bundler and commands such as bundle exec or r...

December 1, 2025 Debugging is one of those tasks that quietly shapes a developer’s day. It’s not flashy, it’s not glamorous, but it’s the difference b...

November 28, 2025 The creator of Ruby — Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto — has acknowledged that Ruby draws from a mosaic of languages: Perl, Smalltalk, Eiff...

November 27, 2025 As Ruby developers, we know that writing Ruby isn’t just about shipping code or passing specs. Our workflow depends a lot on underst...

November 26, 2025 When working with Ruby hashes, we often combine user input with default values. But merge isn’t always ideal — it overwrites existin...

November 25, 2025 In every engineering team, the topic eventually comes up: Should our tests be concise and optimized, or explicit and easy to read? A...

November 24, 2025 Ruby keeps evolving, and the 4.0.0-preview2 release is packed with exciting changes. If you love clean code, emojis, and a little bi...

November 21, 2025 State machines are one of the cleanest and most reliable ways to model workflows in software. If your system needs to move through p...

November 18, 2025 How to Build Flexible, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems** By Germán Alberto Silva (senior Rubyist since 2005) Ruby is often descri...

November 13, 2025 Sometimes, the smallest details in a language reveal the biggest lessons. Recently, during a code review, someone suggested I change...

July 21, 2025 When working with date ranges or numeric intervals in Ruby on Rails, writing clear and idiomatic code can be the difference between “jus...

July 7, 2025 💻 #Ruby #RubyOnRails #ProgrammingTips #CleanCode Ever needed to combine two arrays element by element in Ruby? There’s a method for that—...