Learn Sinatra - An Awesome Ruby Web Framework

[daz4126]

My New Year's resolution is to learn Sinatra (a cool micro-framework that uses Ruby). I've set up a blog that you you can see here:

http://ididitmyway.heroku.com/

The first few posts cover:

What Is Sinatra
Installing Sinatra
Using Git for Source Control
Writing A Simple Sinatra App
Hosting A Sinatra App on the Web (for free)

This should help people get started with putting some dynamic sites on the web with a simple, but powerful framework. Better still, it is all written from the perspective of using Ubuntu, so everything should work fine.

I'd appreciate any comments or feedback.

cheers,

DAZ

[mconway]

Glad to see another Ruby/Sinatra user on the Ubuntu Forums! I love using Sinatra, and along with Heroku it couldn't be easier or more fun.

Here are some cool Sinatra apps that are out there already: http://www.sinatrarb.com/wild.html

[daz4126]

Cheers for this Matt. Hope you find I Did It My Way Useful. I've found Ubuntu, Sinatra and Heroku a perfect fit for web development ... so fast and easy.

DAZ

[nikhilbhardwaj]

great job
i'm just starting to learn ruby and web development

your blog has been of great help to me

[daz4126]

Hi nikhilbhardwaj,

Thanks for your comment. Glad you like the blog ... I hope you continue to find it useful (There should be some more stuff on it soon!)

cheers,

DAZ

[adamsiddhi]

Adam Keyes did a 2 video screen cast on Sinatra. Its pretty good as far as I can tell. I plan on checking it out.

http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-aksinatra/classy-web-development-with-sinatra

Also Rubylearning.org runs a free Sinatra course with eBook. I signed up for that last month but got stuck in Windows. Was having a problem with the shotgun method for refreshing the browser. I started searching for answers on #sinatra IRC channel and multiple people told me that developing Ruby/Sinatra/Rails in Windows leads to lots of frustration. So I switched to Xubuntu 10.04 and am ready to roll.

[daz4126]

Both of these are great resources, I've used them both.
I've put more Sinatra links at this post here (http://ididitmyway.heroku.com/past/2010/1/28/sinatra_sites/), but I'm sure there are more now. Hopefully there will be a full book in the near future.

DAZ

[adamsiddhi]

cool daz. i also found this link here:
Delving into more Ruby Syntax and Understanding Rack & Sinatra (http://newtoruby.com/delving-into-more-ruby-syntax-and-understandi?c=1) which seems like a good intro for beginners (which is me :-)

I found that resource at http://coder.io/ which is a new content aggregator specifically for developers. Seems like a promising service.

keep up the great work Daz!

[ja660k]

so which is faster? Rails or Sinatra?

[daz4126]

@ja660k

Sinatra has a much smaller codebase and footprint than Rails, so I would guess that it would be faster, but it would probably depend on the app.

DAZ

[daz4126]

@adamsiddhi

Thanks for the reply and links - very useful!

DAZ

[jvanoort05]

Hi All,

I just started playing with Sinatra and saw your post. I put my first app togeather. You can demo it here: http://cedarcreekit.com/labs/flip_text.

I personally think Sinatra is really cool. It took me less than 2 hours to put this app together. Anyways let me know what you think of it and if any of you are interested I might put the source code up on GitHub.


Cheers,
jvanoort