^^ | daybreak ^^ \ _ / -= / \ =- ~^~ ^ ^~^~ ~^~ ~ ~^~~^~^-=~=~=-~^~^~^~ Daybreak is a simple key value store for ruby. It has user defined persistence, and all data is stored in a table in memory so ruby niceties are available. Daybreak is faster than other ruby options like pstore or dbm. $ gem install daybreak You can find detailed documentation at http://propublica.github.com/daybreak.