MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby

Meet MonkeysPaw: a web framework where all the pages are prompts and what you see is whatever the LLM thinks you meant. Welcome to the first installment of “Works on Your Machine” where I’m sharing things that have graduated beyond just working on my machine. Origin Story The idea for Monkeys Paw grew out of some conversations I had after my RubyConf 2024 talk, Going Postel, where I explored an idea inspired by Postel’s law - building systems that accept whatever an LLM gives you, rather than focusing on trying to get an LLM to give you exactly the right code. The talk was a direct extension of an opinion I’ve held for a while now: Hallucinations are a Feature not a Bug. What It Does MonkeysPaw is a web framework that generates entire pages from prompt files. Instead of writing HTML, CSS, and Javascript, you write down descriptions (wishes) of what you want, and the framework: Conjures full web pages based on your wishes Handles routing based on file structure Manages layouts an ... Read full article.