Our first edition has officially wrapped, and we owe a massive thank you to our speakers, the crew, and such a phenomenal crowd. The party isn't over yet: see you tonight at the Toga Party!
Thanks for an unforgettable time, and see you next year at Rubycon!
The Rubycon afternoon continues with our fantastic speakers.
Michele Franzin (SeeSaw, Padova) brings a question to Rubycon 2026: what does a smart feature in production actually cost, in euros and in CO2? Almost 25 years of Ruby and web apps behind him. May 8th, Rimini.
No more slow SQL logs. No more hung test suites.
The latest Rails updates fix two of the most annoying bugs in development and CI.
Full breakdown on RubyStackNews.com
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This Week in Rails: Faster Logs, Reliable Parallel Tests, and Key Deprecations April 5, 2026 A new batch of improvements has landed in the Rails codebase this week, focusing on performance refineme…
FFI: How Ruby Talks to C.
One gem. Every C library. MRI, JRuby, TruffleRuby.
No C extension. No Makefile. Just Ruby.
And yes, it works with Ractors.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/25/ffi-how-ruby-talks-to-c/
Ruby Sees the World.
Place a credit card in a photo. Ruby finds it, calibrates the scale, and measures everything else in the frame.
Door: 2.1m. Window: 1.2m. Wall: 8.0m.
Hough transform + Sobel (native C) + ruby-libgd.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/23/ruby-sees-the-world-automatic-measurement-from-photos/
Ruby Sees the World: Automatic Measurement from Photos March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews What if Ruby could look at a photo of a house and tell you the width of the door, the height of the …
Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor.
When I built ruby-libgd I included Sobel edge detection, Laplacian filter, Gaussian blur, and custom convolution as native C bindings. I knew those filters would be useful someday.
Turns out medical imaging is exactly that use case.
Full article with code and Jupyter notebook below.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/23/can-ruby-read-an-x-ray-building-a-medical-image-processor/
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Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Nobody expects Ruby to process medical images. That is exactly why I tried it. This article is a…
2D histograms in pure Ruby.
No Python. No stats gem. Just ruby-libgd and math.
📊 New article on RubyStackNews 👇
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/18/2d-histograms-in-pure-ruby/
Excited to see RubyConf Africa happening in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪 on August 21–22, 2026!
This is a powerful opportunity to connect with the global Ruby community, hear inspiring talks, and support innovation across the continent. 🌍✨
If you’re looking to grow, speak, learn, or build community — this is one to watch.
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