Mmm.. jQuery makes me giddy. This week, I wondered if something akin to jQuery but running server-side would be useful. (Modifying the DOM before it hits the client.)
I tried Jaxer but it seems to not follow the usual MVC pattern we all know and love. I don't know if it supports method chaining goodness ala jQuery though.
Hquery: Uses pure HTML as "template" for rendering views a Hpricot sequence (in the .hquery counter-part file) is executed to modify the pure HTML and the resulting HTML is output to the browser.