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Adam Pisoni of Geni.com has released a Ruby Gem of a new library skynet (have to love the name!), which is a Ruby implementation of MapReduce (not a wrapper on Hadoop or anything like that):
With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program [...]