Sorry for the re-post, but the first one didn't seem to go through properly.
I would like to announce version 2.0 of KirbyBase, a small, pure-Ruby, database management system that stores it's data in plain-text files.
You can download it at: http://www.netpromi.com/files/KirbyBase_Ruby_2.0.zip
You can find out more about KirbyBase for Ruby 2.0 at: http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html
Version 2.0 is a radical departure from the 1.x series. It has been practically re-written from scratch to be much more "Ruby-ish". The most dramatic change is in how query's are expressed. To specify a select query, you can now use a Ruby code block, i.e. anything that can be converted into a Proc object. For example, if you had a database table holding data on WWII planes and you wanted to select all United States planes that had a speed greater than 400mph, the code would look like:
plane_tbl.select { |r| r.country =~ /US/ and r. speed > 400 }
I like doing this much more than building an SQL string. 
Updates, deletes, and inserts work much the same way. A lot of effort has been put into making the all powerful Ruby code block do a lot of the heavy lifting.
I would like to publicly thank Hal Fulton for all of his input/feedback/suggestions/ideas for version 2.0. Hal was a major impetus for my getting this version done. Additionally, he was instrumental in keeping me focused on making this version feel much more like a part of Ruby. That said, any bugs/design flaws/code inteptitude is solely my responsibility, not Hal's!
I hope you give this new version of KirbyBase a try. If you do, please let me know what you think.
Thanks.
Jamey Cribbs
jcribbs@twmi.rr.com