Friendly is a new Ruby ORM (a la ActiveRecord) that lets you easily use NoSQL ideas on regular database engines, such as MySQL.
Developer James Golick has written a blog post introducing Friendly that goes into detail on how it works - with code examples.
Effectively you get schema-less, document-like storage (with indexes!) but based around MySQL.
If you're not familiar with "NoSQL ", it's a blanket/branding term (somewhat like AJAX or Web 2.0) that covers...
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