I've just started on a similar journey ...after a 13 years hiatus in perl programming.... So I've selected Mojolicious to provide the url/routing, just because its so new and fun :-).

For form handling I started grepping cpan and the net for various *form* modules and libraries.

But isn't that the old skool way of looking at things? I mean, the validation/form rendering should be agnostic to whether the server api is handled by perl or ruby, right? Just json/rest hand shaking is the ideal, no? Take a look at backbone.js and backbone.validation . Isn't that the direction we're heading?

Regards,

Dutsjj