A minor, incremental upgrade to the Ruby on Rails Web application framework released on December 17 makes a change in the framework's open source default database. With the 2.0.2 release of Ruby ...

Sequel, apart from being an alternative to ActiveRecord, offers a complete Ruby toolkit to handle database operations. InfoQ had the chance to catch up with Jeremy Evans who replaced Sharon Rosner ...

New Open Source Project: Daybreak, a Simple Key/Value Database for Ruby A couple of weeks ago, in an article about the science behind the Message Machine project, we mentioned the custom key-value ...

Very useful are Fibers in 1.9.1, which have been used for some significant scalability improvements to Ruby database adapters. NeverBlock added 1.8.x support with "Poor Man's Fibers" to its library.