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Steve talked about his work with porting Rails to JavaScript at FooCamp.

Yowser. Part of me thinks it is cool as JavaScript isn't a bad language as many think (not that it doesn't have crazy warts), and JavaScript on client and server can be interesting.

Part of me thinks that it is crazy, and brings up the question on when something can be called "X on Rails". How much do you have to port? Don't you need Ruby-y thinks for a lot of it? Did you port ActiveFoo too? Or, did you just use some of the nice "features" of Rails (convention blah blah) and really you have done a totally different framework, and you would be better off calling it something else? :)