Websocket-drawing is a project mainly written in Ruby, it's free.
Simple WebSocket+Canvas Application
A simple Canvas + WebSocket example built with jQuery and em-websocket. Watch a screencast here: http://screencast.com/t/ZmZjYWIx
To run yourself, fire up the EventMachine server in one tab:
./server.rb
And then start a simple HTTP server for the HTML page in another tab:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Then visit http://localhost:8000/ in Chrome or a WebKit nightly build with multiple windows and start drawing!