Ive been playing with Avi Bryants continuation-based web framework Seaside, which is written in Smalltalk. Wow. Thats all I can say. After some recent work with Rails, I had come to admire the cleanliness of the frameworkeven if, on occasion, I had some complaints about short-cuts taken that need not be necessary. Compared to Seaside, Rails seems to me to be a jalopy. Dont get me wrong, its a seriously pimped out jalopy, but the easy with which one can build interactivity and modify it on the fly with Seaside is mind-blowing.
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NB: Dont take this as a slam of Rails, as its not. Rails is brilliantfor what it is. It takes the historical model of page interaction and data storage to new heights of simplicity. It doesnt, however, change how you view the web. Seaside does. Whether you use it for your next project, or not, its worth looking at, going through the tutorials, and allowing your mind to conceive of a web that simply behaves more naturally.
blog.amber.org/2005/11/23/she-sells-seashells-by-the-seaside/
With Seaside Avi wrote sth. interesting: dabbledb.com/about/.