No lolz here! I actually need exactly this as I'll soon be starting work on a CMS-style editor for Git-based static sites, and it's all Ruby to boot. Awesome sauce!
Yes, it was. It was originally a front end and back end (query server) for CouchDB. But CouchDB 2 really went in a different direction to what I expected with query servers so I gave up and decided to pivot in a different direction with the code base.