You may find some comfort in things like form_assistant[1] or formtastic[2]. In Rails 2, you can't have a model backed by a key-value store. Rails 3, which has

You may find some comfort in things like form_assistant[1] or formtastic[2]. In Rails 2, you can't have a model backed by a key-value store. Rails 3, which has a release candidate out, should make that doable. Sinatra (with and without Padrino) also make it easy to use a k-v store. I think there's a good Redis library out there. I've used rufus-tokyo, which is a ruby library for Tokyo Cabinet, and it's solid. Though now there's Kyoto Cabinet. I'm not sure what the libraries are like for it. 1: http://github.com/rpheath/form_assistant http://github.com/rpheath/form_assistant 2: http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic