nitro-js

At the same time Rails came about there was also Nitro, another Ruby Web framework. It too used this form of MVC. I much preferred Nitro to Rails for being more lightweight as well as more amenable to evolving from bare-bones PHP-style single-file Web apps to to large, robust sites. (It also had a notion of pipeline transformation of content that was quite slick.) George Moschovitis, who created Nitro, ended up moving over to JavaScript. (https://github.com/gmosx/nitro) The Ruby Nitro framework more or less morphed into Ramaze. (For those curious about Ruby Web framework archaeology dig up a 2nd edition copy of Hal Fulton’s The Ruby Way (2006) and read the Web dev section. Caveat: I wrote the non-Rails parts of that section.)

It seems like the package manager mentioned (getjs) has been deprecated for Narwhal's built-in Tusk script. Also, Nitro looks very promising. Hopefully it will help get more Javascript into the server space! http://github.com/gmosx/nitro/tree/master

Very cool. George Moschovitis, who created Nitro (an elegant MVC-ish Web framework for Ruby that came out at the same time as Rails, but always struck me as cleaner and more 'Rubyish' than Rails) is now developing it in JavaScript. http://github.com/gmosx/nitro/tree/master It, too uses Jack.