I'm not particularly familiar with rails (or even web or client/server in general -- I'm more of an embedded/systems type) but this post gives me a strong feeli

I'm not particularly familiar with rails (or even web or client/server in general -- I'm more of an embedded/systems type) but this post gives me a strong feeling of the youth of today rediscovering the lessons of yesterday, to wit, properly abstracting the application from presentation.