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Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort:

Ning is the easiest way to create your own social web apps on the Internet today. And it's free!

If your bookmarks contain even one Web development blog, you'll undoubtedly know that remote scripting is being touted as the new "future of the Web". Although I get the feeling that a few people are perhaps a little over-excited about it, the recent release of numerous high-profile Web applications that use remote scripting has shown that there are definite advantages to utilising these techniques in the creation of seamless Web applications, and to augment Web page functionality.