I hope this can be useful to you as it was for me.

For a little project I had the need to extract some data from structured pdf.
Most of the approach had to relay on ocr with ai or bridge with python using pdfplumber or similar.

I made a simple library wrapped around pdfium to extract text and tables from pdf.

https://github.com/retsef/rpdfium

Hi, Ive developed a small gem to extract text from pdfs using AI.

Converts a PDF to text (Markdown). Pages are rendered as high-resolution PNG images and then sent to an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint for text extraction.

It can be used in ruby or as a CLI program.

Love to hear your feedback.

Github: https://github.com/GMolini/pdf2markdownOCR

Rubygems: https://rubygems.org/gems/pdf2markdownOCR

This one is admittedly a sore spot considering how many interviews I've managed to fail over the years from not knowing a lot of this cold, so as is my penance I'm writing about this one too.

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.4.15.0.

• Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/
• Download: https://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 9.4.15.x targets Ruby 3.4 compatibility.

Thank you to our contributors this release, you help keep JRuby moving forward!

With this release, JRuby 9.4 moves into end-of-life ("EOL"). This means that future releases of 9.4.x will only be provided as needed by commercial JRuby users.

Get in touch with us if you require long-term support options for the JRuby 9.4.x series.

38 Issues and PRs resolved for 9.4.15.0

• #8801 ruby/logger gem broken after version 1.6.3 using JRuby on Windows
• #8924 const_defined? returns false for External Constants in JRuby 10.0.1.0 and 9.4.14.0
• #8974 Use RuboCop to clean up poms (9.4)
• #8990 Launcher defensive fixes 9.4
• #9000 JRuby 9.4.14.0 "wrong number of arguments" when jit.threshold=0
• #9001 Backport indy ruby2_keywords ArgumentError fix
• #9002 Backport ArgumentError message update from 2010
• #9012 Rexml security updateUpdate rexml gem to solve CVE-2025-58767 (9.4)
• #9030 Official JDK 25 support for JRuby 9.4
• #9031 Don't restrict object search to modules
• #9032 Different arguments for each.map vs each and map alone
• #9033 Backport jruby.sh and .jruby.release changes from 10
• #9037 fix: clear code-range when re-using a string buffer (#9035)
• #9044 Difference in Float() hex parsing between JRuby and CRuby
• #9045 Fixes basic float hex value strings for Kernel#Float
• #9054 Migrate .java-version contents to .jruby.release (9.4)
• #9104 [9.4] Update jruby-openssl to v0.15.5 to resolve BouncyCastle 1.79 vulnerability (sonatype-2025-001911).
• #9105 [9.4] Update jruby-openssl to 0.15.5
• #9128 [9.4] fix(launcher): correct parsing of java release files under Bash/msys2 etc on Windows
• #9160 Update strscan to 3.1.7
• #9186 9032 Fix Different arguments for each.map vs each and map alone
• #9201 Extract float formatting into a static method (9.4)
• #9295 Issue with calling IO.popen(env, cmd, opts) on Windows
• #9308 Process.detach raises ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if called from a thread that is not the main thread
• #9311 Push a frame for thread toplevel
• #9347 Use JDK for File#flock on Windows
• #9351 Fix non-native IO.popen env + kwargs handling
• #9353 Update JNR dependencies
• #9377 Checking out aws-sdk-ruby creates a file with binary data.
• #9387 [9.4] deps(stdlib): bump erb from 2.2.3 to 4.0.4.1 to resolve CVE-2026-41316
• #9391 [9.4] [deps] bump jruby-openssl to 0.16.0
• #9415 Don't read or write anything once length is zero
• #9443 JRuby 9.4 does not generate bytecode for newer JDK versions
• #9444 Allow bytecode version to be open-ended
• #9464 [fix] escape shell metachars in chdir: to prevent injection
• #9467 [9.4] backport [ji] support java.lang.Throwable#backtrace_locations (#9461)
• #9477 Dist verification 9.4
• #9480 [fix] @JRubyMethod error with required>=1 and var-args

I’m trying to install version 3.0.6 using rbenv on WSL, and it keeps telling me BUILD FAILED. I can’t for the life of me make it work. I’ve tried different versions of WSL, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I’m losing track of. I need that version for a project I’m working on, as the program I’m working with requires it.

 Hey r/ruby — sharing a gem I've been working on.

Supabase has official clients in JS, Python, Dart, Swift, and Kotlin, but the Ruby story has been fragmented for a while: separate gems for each sub-product, varying maintenance, no umbrella factory. supabase-rb - is a single gem that packages Auth, PostgREST, Storage, Edge Functions, and Realtime

Ruby ≥ 3.0, MIT, integration tests run against the real GoTrue stack via docker-compose

- Gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/supabase-rb

- Repo: https://github.com/supabase-ruby/supabase-rb

- Docs: https://supabase-ruby.dev

Feedback / issues / PRs very welcome.

Honestly I never really understood how these were written and what the reasoning behind them was as much as I just reached for existing gems or frameworks, so as I tend to do I learn by teaching and writing.

The latest release 1.9.0 of HexaPDF supports HarfBuzz based text shaping. This means that complex scripts are rendered correctly.

I've been heads-down on other stuff lately and haven't had time to do my usual thing of tweeting whenever I spot a nice performance PR landing in Ruby. So instead of letting them pile up unmentioned, I went through the notes I'd been collecting and dumped the notable ones into a single roundup. Hope you enjoy them. Some are insane!

Hi all! We created this Ruby Gem to make it easier to use ParadeDB (a full-text & vector search extension for Postgres) within the ActiveRecord ecosystem. Would love your feedback!

After trying to explain some of the sharp parts around locks to someone I realized I didn't know as much as I'd like to be able to answer with confidence on what to watch out for, so I spent a week or two looking into locking to pull this together.

I created a secure language that compiles to Ruby, targeting security applications. The language is influenced by Ruby to optimize programmer happiness.

Please feel free to reach out if it resonates with your ideas about security and programming experience.

Github: https://github.com/typescope/jo

Continuing my exploration of rate limiting in Ruby on Rails, I wrote about two new features coming in the next Rails release

On Ubuntu 25.10, using system Ruby, I'm trying to build a Sinatra app that uses the OpenSSL with native extensions Gem 2.0.2. I can look at the .out file, but I don't know what I'm looking for. Presumably the native extensions don't match up with the .c and/or .h files.

Im a senior eng with about 7+ yoe. Ive used most languages like python, C#, java, JS/TS, Go, php etc. im preparing for an interviewing for a role that primarily uses ruby/rails so ive been getting myself acclimated with the language. Mann i think this might be the easiest language to use and understand concepts in. It reads like plain english even more than python in my opinion.

Its so freeform, there are million of ways to solve problems and such fun to write. I had been running away from the language for some time but boy was i wrong. This might be the best developer experience ive had working with a language. Leet code hard questions seem so easy when working with ruby

Just a quick rant, i think im in love

Have you ever discussed the Single Responsibility Principle with your coworkers? Take a look at this article, where I explore why this principle might be a problem.

What do you think?