diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5692d35..26829f3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ CouchRest uses a mixin you can find in lib/mixins/callbacks which is extracted f
     
 Check the mixin or the ExtendedDocument class to see how to implement your own callbacks.
 
+### Properties
+
+    property :last_name,        :alias     => :family_name
+    property :read_only_value,  :read_only => true
+    property :name,             :length => 4...20
+    property :price,            :type => Integer
+
 ### Casting
 
 Often, you will want to store multiple objects within a document, to be able to retrieve your objects when you load the document, 
@@ -131,7 +138,10 @@ you can define some casting rules.
 
     property :casted_attribute, :cast_as => 'WithCastedModelMixin'
     property :keywords,         :cast_as => ["String"]
+    property :occurs_at,        :cast_as => 'Time'
+    property :end_date,         :cast_as => 'Date'
 
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 If you want to cast an array of instances from a specific Class, use the trick shown above ["ClassName"]
 
 ### Pagination
@@ -162,4 +172,7 @@ Low level usage:
 
 CouchRest is compatible with rails and can even be used a Rails plugin.
 However, you might be interested in the CouchRest companion rails project:
-[http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails](http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails)      
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+[http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails](http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails)      
+=======
+If you want to cast an array of instances from a specific Class, use the trick shown above ["ClassName"]
+>>>>>>> remotes/old/master
diff --git a/THANKS.md b/THANKS.md
index 301f569..643cf5e 100644
--- a/THANKS.md
+++ b/THANKS.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ changes. A list of these people is included below.
  * [Jonathan S. Katz](http://github.com/jkatz)
  * [Matt Lyon](http://mattly.tumblr.com/)
  * Simon Rozet (simon /at/ rozet /dot/ name)
+ * [Marcos Tapajós](http://tapajos.me)
  
 Patches are welcome. The primary source for this software project is [on Github](http://github.com/jchris/couchrest/tree/master)
 
diff --git a/couchrest.gemspec b/couchrest.gemspec
index 26fa2a0..32b9da0 100644
--- a/couchrest.gemspec
+++ b/couchrest.gemspec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{couchrest}
-  s.version = "0.33"
+  s.version = "0.34"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["J. Chris Anderson", "Matt Aimonetti"]
@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.email = %q{jchris@apache.org}
   s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README.md", "LICENSE", "THANKS.md"]
   s.files = ["LICENSE", "README.md", "Rakefile", "THANKS.md", "history.txt", "examples/model", "examples/model/example.rb", "examples/word_count", "examples/word_count/markov", "examples/word_count/views", "examples/word_count/views/books", "examples/word_count/views/books/chunked-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/books/united-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/markov", "examples/word_count/views/markov/chain-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/markov/chain-reduce.js", "examples/word_count/views/word_count", "examples/word_count/views/word_count/count-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/word_count/count-reduce.js", "examples/word_count/word_count.rb", "examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb", "examples/word_count/word_count_views.rb", "lib/couchrest", "lib/couchrest/commands", "lib/couchrest/commands/generate.rb", "lib/couchrest/commands/push.rb", "lib/couchrest/core", "lib/couchrest/core/adapters", "lib/couchrest/core/adapters/restclient.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/database.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/design.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/document.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/http_abstraction.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/response.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/rest_api.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/server.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/view.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper", "lib/couchrest/helper/pager.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper/streamer.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper/upgrade.rb", "lib/couchrest/middlewares", "lib/couchrest/middlewares/logger.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins", "lib/couchrest/mixins/attachments.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/callbacks.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/class_proxy.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/collection.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/design_doc.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/document_queries.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/extended_attachments.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/extended_document_mixins.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/validation.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins.rb", "lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb", "lib/couchrest/more", "lib/couchrest/more/casted_model.rb", "lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb", "lib/couchrest/more/property.rb", "lib/couchrest/support", "lib/couchrest/support/blank.rb", "lib/couchrest/support/class.rb", "lib/couchrest/support/rails.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation", "lib/couchrest/validation/auto_validate.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/contextual_validators.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validation_errors.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/absent_field_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/confirmation_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/format_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats/email.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats/url.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/generic_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/length_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/method_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/numeric_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/required_field_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest.rb", "spec/couchrest", "spec/couchrest/core", "spec/couchrest/core/couchrest_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/database_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/design_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/document_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/server_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/helpers", "spec/couchrest/helpers/pager_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/helpers/streamer_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more", "spec/couchrest/more/casted_extended_doc_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/casted_model_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_attachment_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_subclass_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_view_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb", "spec/fixtures", "spec/fixtures/attachments", "spec/fixtures/attachments/couchdb.png", "spec/fixtures/attachments/README", "spec/fixtures/attachments/test.html", "spec/fixtures/more", "spec/fixtures/more/article.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/card.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/cat.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/course.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/event.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/invoice.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/person.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/question.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/service.rb", "spec/fixtures/views", "spec/fixtures/views/lib.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/lib.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/only-map.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/test-map.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/test-reduce.js", "spec/spec.opts", "spec/spec_helper.rb", "utils/remap.rb", "utils/subset.rb"]
+  s.has_rdoc = true
   s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/jchris/couchrest}
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
-  s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.4}
+  s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.1}
   s.summary = %q{Lean and RESTful interface to CouchDB.}
 
   if s.respond_to? :specification_version then
     current_version = Gem::Specification::CURRENT_SPECIFICATION_VERSION
-    s.specification_version = 3
+    s.specification_version = 2
 
     if Gem::Version.new(Gem::RubyGemsVersion) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<rest-client>, [">= 0.5"])
diff --git a/lib/couchrest.rb b/lib/couchrest.rb
index 3da42d8..32d9ccd 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ require 'couchrest/monkeypatches'
 
 # = CouchDB, close to the metal
 module CouchRest
-  VERSION    = '0.33' unless self.const_defined?("VERSION")
+  VERSION    = '0.34' unless self.const_defined?("VERSION")
   
   autoload :Server,       'couchrest/core/server'
   autoload :Database,     'couchrest/core/database'
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb b/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb
index 69c9411..3218d39 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ module CouchRest
             # 'boolean' type is simply used to generate a property? accessor method
             elsif ((property.init_method == 'new') && target == 'boolean')
               self[key]
+            elsif ((property.init_method == 'new') && target == 'Date') 
+                self[key].is_a?(String) ? Date.parse(self[key].dup) : self[key]
             else
               # Let people use :send as a Time parse arg
               klass = ::CouchRest.constantize(target)
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb b/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
index 7fd067a..80278ae 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ module CouchRest
     # if the document is not saved properly.
     def save!
       raise "#{self.inspect} failed to save" unless self.save
+      true
     end
 
     # Deletes the document from the database. Runs the :destroy callbacks.
diff --git a/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb b/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb
index 1b05bc3..8b07803 100644
--- a/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require File.expand_path("../../../spec_helper", __FILE__)
 require File.join(FIXTURE_PATH, 'more', 'article')
 require File.join(FIXTURE_PATH, 'more', 'course')
+require File.join(FIXTURE_PATH, 'more', 'card')
 
 
 describe "ExtendedDocument" do
@@ -409,6 +410,25 @@ describe "ExtendedDocument" do
     it "should set the type" do
       @sobj['couchrest-type'].should == 'Basic'
     end
+    
+    describe "save!" do
+      
+      before(:each) do
+        @sobj = Card.new(:first_name => "Marcos", :last_name => "Tapajós")
+      end
+      
+      it "should return true if save the document" do
+        @sobj.save!.should == true
+      end
+      
+      it "should raise error if don't save the document" do
+        @sobj.first_name = nil
+        lambda {  @sobj.save!.should == true }.should raise_error(RuntimeError)
+      end
+
+    end
+    
+    
   end
   
   describe "saving a model with a unique_id configured" do
diff --git a/spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb b/spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb
index 126d86f..d711024 100644
--- a/spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb
@@ -132,14 +132,17 @@ describe "ExtendedDocument properties" do
   describe "casting" do
     describe "cast keys to any type" do
       before(:all) do
-        event_doc = { :subject => "Some event", :occurs_at => Time.now }
+        event_doc = { :subject => "Some event", :occurs_at => Time.now, :end_date => Date.today }
         e = Event.database.save_doc event_doc
 
         @event = Event.get e['id']
       end
-      it "should cast created_at to Time" do
+      it "should cast occurs_at to Time" do
         @event['occurs_at'].should be_an_instance_of(Time)
       end
+      it "should cast end_date to Date" do
+        @event['end_date'].should be_an_instance_of(Date)
+      end
     end
     
     describe "casting to Float object" do
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/more/event.rb b/spec/fixtures/more/event.rb
index 221865e..46433f7 100644
--- a/spec/fixtures/more/event.rb
+++ b/spec/fixtures/more/event.rb
@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@ class Event < CouchRest::ExtendedDocument
   
   property :subject
   property :occurs_at, :cast_as => 'Time', :send => 'parse'
+  property :end_date,  :cast_as => 'Date'
+  
+  
 end
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