Take advantage of Sinatra, the Ruby-based web application library and
domain-specific language used by Heroku, GitHub, Apple, Engine Yard, and
other prominent organizations. With this concise book, you will quickly
gain working knowledge of Sinatra and its minimalist approach to
building both standalone and modular web applications.
Sinatra serves as a lightweight wrapper around Rack middleware, with
syntax that maps closely to functions exposed by HTTP verbs, which makes
it ideal for web services and APIs. If you have experience building
applications with Ruby, you'll quickly learn language fundamentals and
see under-the-hood techniques, with the help of several practical
examples. Then you'll get hands-on experience with Sinatra by building
your own blog engine.
- Learn Sinatra's core concepts, and get started by building a simple
application
- Create views, manage sessions, and work with Sinatra route definitions
- Become familiar with the language's internals, and take a closer look
at Rack
- Use different subclass methods for building flexible and robust
architectures
- Put Sinatra to work: build a blog that takes advantage of service
hooks provided by the GitHub API