This is purely a drop in the bucket of what has to come...
Support for chroot'ing
Altering process names (fully and temporary appending)
bleak_house support
Support for tweaking REE environment variables prior to launch (bash wrapper)
Clustering support (run multiple workers out of same project)
Error handling to the degree Rails does
Support for custom error handlers in the project
Easy configuration of an ORM of choice, including patching it if needed (ActiveRecord cough)
Improved generators for creating skeleton daemons:
Evented jabber bot
Empty periodic event loop
Empty periodic loop (non-evented)
Queue (SQS, AMQP, etc) pollers
Rake tasks for generating:
Sys-V style init scripts
Plenty of docs, seriously a lot of docs
Specs & features, tons of them too
Integration tests for the specific daemons
Some level of thread safety, or mechanisms to ease thread safety
Built in utilities:
Fibre pool for 1.9
Some activesupport-esque functions until activesupport 3.0 hits the streets
DRY up the following:
Loading configuration files for the daemons
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