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🧵 ruby-libgd: The Modern Ruby Image Library You've Been Sleeping On
• 28x FASTER drawing
• 2.5x FASTER sepia filter
• 3.7x LESS memory
• Native GIF animation (no one else has this)
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I always envied Python developers typing plt.show() in Jupyter and getting a beautiful graph.
So I built the Ruby equivalent.
Docker + JupyterLab + Ruby kernel + ruby-libgd:
```
plot = Plot.new
plot.add("sin(x)")
plot.add("x**2 + y**2 - 9", type: :implicit)
plot.render("/work/graph.png")
```Scientific plotting is coming to Ruby. Full article on RubyStackNews — link in comments.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/13/plotting-mathematical-functions-in-ruby-inside-jupyter/
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🚀 ruby-libgd hits 3,000 downloads!
From version 0.1.0 in January to 0.3.0 in March, ruby-libgd has grown into a lightweight, efficient Ruby library for dynamic image generation, filters, and GIF animations.
Years of iteration, community feedback, and careful optimization have brought us here — and the journey is just beginning. 🌟
Discover the library’s capabilities, the milestone story, and what’s next: https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/09/ruby-libgd-reaches-3000-downloads-a-milestone-in-ruby-image-generation/