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HexaPDF is a pure Ruby library with an accompanying application for working with PDF files. It was designed with ease of use and performance in mind. It uses lazy loading and lazy computing when possible and tries to produce small PDF files by default.

Chartkick is a Ruby gem that makes it easy to generate beautiful charts in Rails and other Ruby applications with minimal code. It provides a high-level API where developers can use simple helpers like line_chart, pie_chart, or column_chart and pass in data arrays or ActiveRecord queries. Under the hood, it works with popular charting libraries such as Google Charts, Chart.js, and Highcharts, but hides their verbose JavaScript APIs behind a clean Ruby interface. It also handles things like automatic labels, legends, colors, and responsiveness without requiring you to manually configure chart options. ...

EventMachine is an event-driven I/O and lightweight concurrency library for Ruby. It provides event-driven I/O using the Reactor pattern, much like JBoss Netty, Apache MINA, Python's Twisted, Node.js, libevent and libev. Extremely high scalability, performance and stability for the most demanding production environments. An API that eliminates the complexities of high-performance threaded network programming, allowing engineers to concentrate on their application logic. This unique combination makes EventMachine a premier choice for designers of critical networked applications, including Web servers and proxies, email and IM production systems, authentication/authorization processors, and many more. ...

...Though the project is now deprecated and newer alternatives exist, it remains an excellent historical example of how to embed a drawing/graphics API into another language and how creative coding communities evolve. For educators or artists exploring coding visually, Ruby-Processing provided a low-barrier entry by combining a high-level language (Ruby) with an expressive graphics library. It also demonstrates how open-source communities wrap frameworks into new environments for accessibility and experimentation.