[stevoski]

Struts was a popular Java MVC framework in the early 2000’s and was pre-Rails.

I kind of feel bad mentioning Struts and Rails in the same sentence, though, as Rails did much more than Struts.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

MVC dates all the way back to Smalltalk in the early 80s.

[cromulent]

I do seem to remember DHH complaining about "XML pushups" when Rails was released, and knowing what he meant from Struts.