Today I will present my reasoning which lead me to the implementation of the LRUHash as well as how I integrated it into the main code. We will look at how LRUHash works and how it is integrated into the project. Then I will answer some questions that were actually asked — or only thought.

I'm still wrapping a few things up, so theres a bit more to come, but in the mean time here are a few quick notes to pass on:

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This is a guest post from Nathan de Vries.

I’ve never really been a fan of gitk, but early on when I started using Git I found a tool called tig. It’s available in MacPorts and Ubuntu (since Gutsy) through apt-get install tig. Tig provides a simple command-line yet visual interface to Git.

Apache's CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.

Basics

CouchDB is a document-based database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API using the Javascript language as a query interface. CouchDB is a non-relational, non object-oriented database, which stands against one of Rails' basic conventions: the ORM data structure. CouchDB does not come to replace ActiveRecord or any other relational data structure laye…