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 →

Ruby as an Orchestrator Language

Ruby as an Orchestrator Language March 5, 2026 Ruby excels at structuring applications, managing logic, and coordinating systems. In many real-world architectures, Ruby acts as the orchestrator, while specialized libraries handle computationally intensive tasks. This hybrid model is used widely in the Ruby ecosystem. Examples include: image processing database engines cryptography machine learning bindings GIS … Continue reading Ruby as an Orchestrator Language →

Writing Ruby Bindings for C Libraries

Writing Ruby Bindings for C Libraries March 4, 2026 Building Native Extensions with C (and Rust) Ruby is known for its productivity and elegant syntax, but sometimes performance-critical tasks require lower-level languages. Fortunately, Ruby provides a powerful mechanism called C extensions, allowing Ruby code to call native C functions directly. This approach enables Ruby developers … Continue reading Writing Ruby Bindings for C Libraries →

Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0

Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0 March 4, 2026 Image processing is usually associated with languages like Python or C++, but Ruby can also manipulate images efficiently thanks to bindings for native libraries. One of those libraries is libgd, a well-known C library used to dynamically generate and manipulate images such as … Continue reading Image Processing in Ruby with GD: Exploring ruby-libgd v0.3.0 →

Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5)

Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5) March 3, 2026 Today I implemented support for custom convolution filters in Ruby-LibGD, enabling the application of kernels such as blur, sharpen, and edge detection directly from Ruby. At first glance, this may look like just another image filter. In reality, convolution is … Continue reading Understanding Convolution Filters in Image Processing (and Adding Them to Ruby-LibGD v0.2.5) →

🚀 The Production-Grade Ruby Microservices Stack (2026)

The Production-Grade Ruby Microservices Stack (2026) March 2, 2026 Microservices don’t fail because of Ruby. They fail because of architecture. Most “microservices” I see in Ruby are: • HTTP chains tightly coupled together • Shared databases behind the scenes • No tracing • No event replay • No contract validation That’s not distributed architecture. That’s … Continue reading 🚀 The Production-Grade Ruby Microservices Stack (2026) →

🇯🇵 Kaigi 2026 Is Approaching — Why the Global Ruby Community Should Pay Close Attention

Kaigi 2026 Is Approaching — Why the Global Ruby Community Should Pay Close Attention March 2, 2026 With April approaching, RubyKaigi 2026 is about to take place in Hakodate, Japan — and for the global Ruby community, this is not just another date on the calendar. It is a moment that often defines the technological … Continue reading 🇯🇵 Kaigi 2026 Is Approaching — Why the Global Ruby Community Should Pay Close Attention →

🚀 Terminal UX in Ruby: Beautiful Tools Without Leaving the Shell

March 1, 2026 The Modern CLI Stack Beyond puts Ruby is often associated with web applications, background jobs, and scripting. But quietly — almost underground — a rich ecosystem has emerged for building modern, interactive, polished terminal applications. Not the old “print some text and parse ARGV” style. We’re talking about tools that feel closer … Continue reading 🚀 Terminal UX in Ruby: Beautiful Tools Without Leaving the Shell →

🦀 Rust Inside Ruby Core: A New Systems Layer for MRI

February 27, 2026 For nearly three decades, CRuby (MRI) has been overwhelmingly a C codebase. That stability has been both a strength and a constraint. Recently, however, something genuinely new appeared inside the official Ruby repository: Parts of Ruby itself are now written in Rust. This is not theoretical, experimental folklore, or third-party tooling. It … Continue reading 🦀 Rust Inside Ruby Core: A New Systems Layer for MRI →

🧱 Rack Is Still Innovating: The Backbone of Ruby’s Web Stack Keeps Evolving

Rack Is Still Innovating: The Backbone of Ruby’s Web Stack Keeps Evolving February 26, 2026 In recent months, much of the conversation in the Ruby ecosystem has focused on Ruby 4, Rails 8, concurrency, JIT compilers, and runtime capabilities. But while attention was on the language and frameworks, one critical component — present in every … Continue reading 🧱 Rack Is Still Innovating: The Backbone of Ruby’s Web Stack Keeps Evolving →