<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tebako Blog</title><description>Tebako packages Ruby applications into self-contained, cross-platform executables. One file, zero dependencies, every platform.</description><link>https://www.tebako.org/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Tebako is alive — the thrift-free re-architecture</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2026-07-22-tebako-is-alive-thrift-free-rearchitecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2026-07-22-tebako-is-alive-thrift-free-rearchitecture/</guid><description>Answering &quot;Is the project dead?&quot;: no. Maintenance continues under the tamatebako organization, and the dependency churn behind the recurring build breakage is being fixed at the root — by removing folly and Thrift from the stack entirely.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>architecture</category></item><item><title>Understanding Tebako Packaging Scenarios for Ruby Applications</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-03-28-tebako-packaging-scenarious/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-03-28-tebako-packaging-scenarious/</guid><description>A comprehensive guide to the different packaging scenarios supported by Tebako</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>continuous integration</category></item><item><title>Setting the record straight: Tebako packaging capabilities</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-03-05-thanking-brad-gessler/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-03-05-thanking-brad-gessler/</guid><description>Thanks to Brad Gessler for his Tebako blog post! Here we clarify macOS Intel build capabilities and the intended gem release workflow to help developers implement Tebako more efficiently.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>technical</category></item><item><title>Tebako multi-architecture packaging containers now available on Docker</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-01-25-tebako-ci-containers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-01-25-tebako-ci-containers/</guid><description>Tebako now offers Linux GNU and musl containers on amd64 and arm64 architectures with preinstalled Tebako environments.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>continuous integration</category></item><item><title>Tebako announces support of packages based on Ruby 3.4 at v0.12.0</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-01-05-tebako-ruby-3.4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2025-01-05-tebako-ruby-3.4/</guid><description>Tebako 0.12.0 now provides an option to create packages based on Ruby 3.4.1 on Ubuntu, Alpine, macOS and Windows.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>Ruby 3.4</category></item><item><title>Announcing Tebako v0.11.0: decoupling runtime and application</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-12-25-tebako-split-runtime-application/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-12-25-tebako-split-runtime-application/</guid><description>Tebako 0.11.0 separates runtime and application packaging for reusable Ruby execution, enhancing flexibility, efficiency, and simplified updates.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>distribution</category><category>mounting</category></item><item><title>Tebako 0.9.0 enhances Ruby on Rails packaging with host folder mounting</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-10-19-tebako-mount-and-ror/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-10-19-tebako-mount-and-ror/</guid><description>Tebako 0.9.0 introduces the ability to mount host folders to memfs, providing seamless packaging support for Ruby on Rails applications. This feature helps overcome the challenge of dealing with Rails&apos; hardcoded paths for temporary files, caches, and sockets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>Ruby on Rails</category><category>mounting</category></item><item><title>Tebako 0.8.7 improves package portability on Linux distributions</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-09-03-tebako-gnu-portability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-09-03-tebako-gnu-portability/</guid><description>Tebako 0.8.7 introduces forward compatibility for Linux distributions that depend on the GNU C Library (`glibc`).</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>glibc</category><category>GNU Linux</category></item><item><title>Tebako announces support of packages based on Ruby 3.3 at v0.8.0</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-07-25-tebako-ruby-3.3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-07-25-tebako-ruby-3.3/</guid><description>Tebako 0.8.0 now provides an option to create packages based on Ruby 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 on Ubuntu, Alpine, macOS and Windows.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>Ruby 3.3</category></item><item><title>Tebako announces full Windows support at v0.7.0</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-06-28-tebako-windows-update/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-06-28-tebako-windows-update/</guid><description>Tebako 0.7.0 now provides full support for Ruby on Windows 2019, Windows 2022.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>windows</category></item><item><title>Tebako Windows support at v0.6.0!</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-04-02-tebako-windows-release/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2024-04-02-tebako-windows-release/</guid><description>Tebako now officially supports Windows, including Windows 2019, Windows 2022 targets using MinGW ucrt64, at version 0.6.0 released today. Now Tebako supports packaging for most major platforms: Linux, macOS and Windows.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category><category>windows</category></item><item><title>Details about Tebako patching processes</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-08-10-tebako-patching-details/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-08-10-tebako-patching-details/</guid><description>Building Ruby with minimal external dependencies is a challenging task loosely supported by the community. We faced numerous issues on this path and had to resolve them creatively.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category></item><item><title>Benchmarking of tebako package against original Ruby applications</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-11-24-tebako-benchmarking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-11-24-tebako-benchmarking/</guid><description>A Tebako package created from a Ruby application introduces four features that can negatively affect performance. In this post we discuss performance comparison of Tebako package and original application and show that negative impact is minimal.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category></item><item><title>Using SSL in applications packaged with Aibika</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-09-07-using-ssl-in-applications-packaged-with-aibika/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-09-07-using-ssl-in-applications-packaged-with-aibika/</guid><description>Using SSL-powered features with Aibika may require additional handling of SLL certificates.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>aibika</category><category>packaging</category><category>ssl</category><category>https</category></item><item><title>Introducing Aibika: Ruby executable packager on Windows built on Ocra</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-08-25-introducing-aibika-and-ocra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-08-25-introducing-aibika-and-ocra/</guid><description>Aibika is a modernized version of the Ocra Ruby executable packager on Windows.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>aibika</category><category>packaging</category></item><item><title>Tebako packager revisited</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-08-10-tebako-packager-revisited/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-08-10-tebako-packager-revisited/</guid><description>The distribution of Ruby applications can be considered an unsolved problem. By itself, Ruby does not provide a consistent and easy method for setting up and running a running application.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category></item><item><title>Tebako technology and data flow</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-02-25-tebako-technology-data-flow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-02-25-tebako-technology-data-flow/</guid><description>The distribution of Ruby applications can be considered an unsolved problem. By itself, Ruby does not provide a consistent and easy method for setting up and running a complex application.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category></item><item><title>Challenges in distributing Ruby applications</title><link>https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-01-17-challenges-in-distributing-ruby-apps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.tebako.org/blog/2023-01-17-challenges-in-distributing-ruby-apps/</guid><description>The distribution of Ruby applications can be considered an unsolved problem. By itself, Ruby does not provide a consistent and easy method for setting up and running a complex application.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tebako</category><category>packaging</category></item></channel></rss>