Ruby just got its raster engine back.
After RubyConf 2025 highlighted how hard it is to generate map tiles and images in Ruby, I built ruby-libgd — a modern native binding to libgd.
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Rebuilding Ruby’s Image Processing Layer: Why ruby-libgd Matters for GIS and the Future of Ruby
Ruby on Rails Developer | Ruby, Backend January 2, 2026 In late 2025, during a RubyConf presentation about disaster-response systems, an uncomfortable truth was stated publicly: Generating map tile…
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