Hobbit
A minimalistic microframework built on top of Rack. (by patriciomacadden)
Sinatra
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo) (by sinatra)
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| Hobbit | Sinatra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | |
| 274 | 12,095 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| over 3 years ago | 11 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Hobbit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Hobbit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.
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16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development
You can access the recipes, templates, guides, and demo applications through the Hobbit GitHub page.
Sinatra
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sinatra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
- Sinatra 4.0
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How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
Compared to Ruby on Rails, a full-stack web framework, Sinatra is a very lean micro-framework originally developed by Blake Mizerany to help Ruby developers build applications with "minimal effort".
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Making AJAX Applications Crawlable? How to build a simple web service on Google App Engine to produce HTML Snapshots?
a Sinatra app hosted on Heroku on the domain http://example.com
- I created a simple router inspired by Ruby's Sinatra. What do you guys think?
- Escaping all path info with Shellwords.escape in Sinatra
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How do I set up a Sinatra app under Apache with Passenger?
Let's say I have the simplest single-file Sinatra app. The hello world on their homepage will do. I want to run it under Apache with Phusion Passenger, AKA mod_rails.
- Learning Ruby:Rails:Routes:Controllers#beginner
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Ruby on Rails VS Hanami - a user suggested alternative
3 projects | 11 Aug 2021
Sinatra is the oldest competitor of Rails. Although it's not that popular anymore, it's still used in some simple and performance focused services.
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Does Anyone use Sinatra in Production?
Sinatra is fine as long as you have a small number of routes, because its router is O(n): https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/ac5404dbd897a4b3c5b3921d2f89fecd3b540ed3/lib/sinatra/base.rb#L1008-L1010
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Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To
https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra A classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Hobbit and Sinatra you can also consider the following projects:
Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails
Hanami - The web, with simplicity.
rack-app - minimalist framework for building rack applications
Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit
Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.
Padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.
Syro - Simple router for web applications
Inesita - Frontend web application framework in Ruby using Opal.
Camping - the 5k pocket full-of-gags web microframework