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Reader Joe Bob sent me a link to IxEdit to ask what I thought. I hadn’t heard of it, so I checked it out. They have a six minute video you can watch which explains it pretty well. In a nutshell, it’s a GUI editor for creating interactive stuff on websites. Click an element, tell it how you want it to behave. Think of it like CSS Edit for jQuery (it uses jQuery and jQuery UI to do it’s thing).

Supermodel is a new library by Alex Maccaw that uses the Rails 3.0 ActiveModel library to provide ActiveRecord-esque in-memory "database" storage in Ruby.

Supermodel is best demonstrated with a basic example:

require 'supermodel'

class Person < SuperModel::Base; end

a = Person.new( :name => "Jim" )
a.save

Person.find_by_name('Jim') # => #<Person>
Person.all # => [#<Person>]