Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (EXPLAINED)
Published: October 18th, 2007This super-sexy DSL runs at lighting speed. It sits on top of Mongrel and was written to be thread-safe, sleek and tiny. And an entire web-application can be written and contained in one file (or a small collection of files)! Think Facebook apps…
The blazing-fast, thread-safe micro-framework was released last week! A new Sinatra resource page has been put up here at http://www.xnot.org/sinatra/
Great for facebook apps and other speed-necessary web-apps. An entire application can be contained in one file!
Here’s a snippet from Sinatra’s introduction tutorial:
get '/' do body do if posts.empty? "There are no posts" + new_post_link else " <ul>"+posts.all.collect {|post| " <li>"+post[:title]+" - "+post[:body]+"</li> "}+"</ul> "+new_post_link end end end
Ready. Set. Go.
In terms of the formatting, you're allowed to use markdown, textile, or basic html; it's truly up to you -- what strikes your fancy?
You don't have to worry about your e-mail address being sold to a russian-spam-mafia. I'm only going to use it for my own weird needs; like asking you out for a date on a lonely night of coding.