Rack is actually best compared to Node's 'connect' middleware. So Node + connect + Express offers a very barebones framework (similar to Sinatra for Ruby, as I

Rack is actually best compared to Node's 'connect' middleware. So Node + connect + Express offers a very barebones framework (similar to Sinatra for Ruby, as I understand it). And while there are efforts to create bigger, more rails-like frameworks that build on top of node (and usually connect, and sometimes even express), as far as I can tell there's nothing quite ready to be compared to RoR.