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ruby-libgd released — a modern native raster engine for Ruby

by Giménez Silva Germán Alberto —

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/01/02/rebuilding-rubys-image-processing-layer-why-ruby-libgd-matters-for-gis-and-the-future-of-ruby/

We’re excited to announce the release of ruby-libgd, a modern native Ruby binding to libgd. After RubyConf 2025 highlighted the difficulty of generating map tiles and images in Ruby due to unmaintained bindings and slow ImageMagick wrappers, ruby-libgd fills a critical gap: a fast, in-memory, GC-safe image processing layer for Ruby without external processes.

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