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I wrote Catapult about a year ago. It's a very simple Ruby app that makes it snake simple to associate Ruby code with a (typically local) Web server URL. I wanted a simple way to write and execute Ruby services. (It follows a Phoenix School philosophy of software design.)

Why recently announced MouseHole, which is a proxy-plus service, allowing you to apply Ruby code to Web pages much as one can do with Greasemonkey.

Not surprisingly, it reminded me of what I've been poking around with, having Konfabulator widgets talk to a local Ruby server.

I was just about to go pull up my Catapult source and run it through Rubyscript2exe, when I caught a new post from Why on ruby-talk:

James, this release is largely inspired by your Catapult app. I ripped the logging and the url-to-method-dispatch stuff straight from Catapult (see lib/mousehole.rb). I love Catapult. It's just one of those little bits of code that is relentlessly cool to tinker with.

I've downloaded the latest MouseHole. Now I need to play with it, hook it up to Konfabulator, and see what I can add.