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It's been almost a year since Ric Roberts posted about using MongoDB and MongoMapper and I've seen an explosion in the number of people using these tools in the Ruby community since then (I use them heavily on coder.io too).

Harmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps.

Why's that cool? Well, it enables you to build your own Ruby-level unit tests for JavaScript code within your Web applications - everything can be under one set of test suites!

Norwegian Rubyist August Lilleaas has been busy putting together a ton of examples of using the Net::HTTP Ruby

Friendly is a new Ruby ORM (a la ActiveRecord) that lets you easily use NoSQL ideas on regular database engines, such as MySQL.

A couple of weeks ago, popular micro-blogging service Twitter unveiled a beta "streaming API." Twitter's nature means they get hammered with polling requests so they've begun to experiment with the concept of streaming relevant data within a single H

TwitterLand (Github repository) is a single Ruby library that packages up access to, currently, 5 different Twitter-related data services.

MongoDB a is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database written in C++.

It's sort of a cross between scalable key/value stores and traditional functionality-rich relational databases.

Paul Dix, of Feedzirra fame, strikes again!

This time with Typhoeus (Github repo), a high-speed, parallel HTTP request library for Ruby.

It been a few weeks since Shoulda's 2.10 release so it's a good time to round up some of the new features and the best articles covering Shoulda.

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