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I implemented the same idea in Ruby event machine: http://gist.github.com/184760

Obviously missing features (auth, nicks, scrolling) but that can all be added in a few mins.

how about turning this to a full framework? or is there one already?

I'll brainstorm the idea. I have some ideas of how to turn this evented programming into a very natural flow using ruby 1.9.1's fibers.

I've been tinkering with continuation passing web frameworks in Ruby, but haven't had time to really dive into making one. There is plenty of inspirational material out there e.g. Seaside. If you get anywhere, myself and probably others in the community would be interested to hear about it.

http://blog.extension.ws/11/modal_web_experiments

This would be extremely interesting as this area is one major weakpoint for available Ruby frameworks.

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