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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.

Ruby2D is a simple and elegant 2D graphics library for the Ruby programming language, designed to make it easy to build games, simulations, and interactive applications. Built atop SDL2 and OpenGL, Ruby2D abstracts away the complexity of low-level graphics programming while exposing enough control for performance and flexibility. It supports images, text, sounds, and basic geometric shapes, making it ideal for learning graphics or quickly prototyping ideas with Ruby. The library is cross-platform and lightweight, staying true to Ruby’s principle of developer happiness.

...Comprehensive internationalization features, including full support for UTF-8 based fonts, right-to-left text rendering, fallback font support, and extension points for customizable text wrapping. Support for PDF outlines for document navigation. Low level PDF features, allowing users to create custom extensions by dropping down all the way to the PDF object tree layer. (Mostly useful to those with knowledge of the PDF specification). If you are looking for a highly flexible PDF document generation system, Prawn might be the tool for you. It is not a reporting tool or a publishing toolchain, though it could be fairly easily used to build those things.

...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.

Networking and sockets in scripting languages is difficult and often overcomplicated! Monasic is a server daemon (service) which does all the low level work to create a simple message-based environment, allowing easy access to networking via scripts.