As most of you who read this know, Damien's CouchDb project has gone Alpha. What you might not know, however, is that I've been working on side project to build a Ruby based API for working with Couch's flexible document store.

It's been fun leaning more about what Damien has built and I think Ruby and CouchDb are a great match. CouchDb hits a big sweet spot in data storage between simple file based approaches and classic structured storage and Ruby provides a lot of flexability and dynamic behaviors inorder to map on to Couch's schemaless data.

The CouchDb-Ruby project is being hosted on Rubyforge and while currently no implementation is available, you can expect some files soon.