[nickmerwin]

For the rails kids, we have Bort (http://github.com/fudgestudios/bort/tree/master)

[jhancock]

for the merb grown-ups, merb 1.0 now has a well factored authentication framework. The docs/howtos are still a little rough, but I've just gone through migrating my existing app which had mature hand-rolled User model, session management, and registration process. With the new merb auth code, I've just dropped quite a bit of code.

also +1 for Blueprint CSS as well. This finally got me out of CSS hell.