Lately I’ve found myself wanting to develop test solutions that essentially require a simple web server along with a lot of client-side logic. For example, a Gherkin repository interface is something I’ve been longing to do. I don’t want to learn Pylons (in the Python world) right now and while my focus is Ruby, I’m not too keen on the overhead and bloat of Rails. I’ve done a Sinatra app (Dialogic). Sinatra is sort of Rails-lite, but that doesn’t really help me with an optimized solution that is going to use a lot of JavaScript. Thus did I come across Node.js.