A nice wrapper to MongoDB is John Nunemaker's MongoMapper:

http://railstips.org/2009/6/27/mongomapper-the-ra...

We've been using it for the past month or so for a new project. MongoDB really shines because it naturally fits in with resource-oriented architectures via an object-oriented language.

Can you describe how ActiveModel and ActiveORM will work together? Are there plans to provide more support for the many new "NoSQL" alternative data stores? The ActionPack integration steps outlined above are wonderful, but other pain points like the ActiveRecord-centricity of Rails plugins still exist.

I'm confident that come contest time, that entry will coincidentally have a Hamming distance of not just 0, but of negative infinity.

Already got my highly-optimized entry done:

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