Sinatra
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo) (by sinatra)
faker
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. (by faker-ruby)
Sinatra | faker | |
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10 | 45 | |
12,102 | 11,122 | |
0.2% | 0.8% | |
8.2 | 8.7 | |
17 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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)
faker
Posts with mentions or reviews of faker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
- Faker – generate fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
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Test Driving a Rails API - Part Two
While we’re at it, let's add a couple of other gems we’ll need for our test environment: factory_bot_rails is a fixtures replacement and generates test model instances. faker is handy for generating fake strings of data to be used in tests. Add those gems to the development and test group of your Gemfile:
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Full-Text Search for Ruby on Rails with Litesearch
Next up, we'll combine a few of the techniques we've reviewed to implement snappy typeahead searching. Before we do that, though, let's generate more sample data. I will use the popular faker gem to do that:
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Leveling up your custom fake data with Faker.js
Faker was originally written in Perl and is also available as a library for Ruby, Java, and Python.
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How to Use Shoulda Matchers with RSpec for Ruby on Rails
Faker
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How to Setup RSpec on a Rails Project
rspec-rails factory_bot_rails faker
- Seeding the DB: Best approach?
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Users of the Ruby programming language now have FFXIV mock data
Ah, so the data is just a giant .yml file of potential options, that I compiled, and then faker grabs a random one based on that data. There's no "database" or anything akin to that.
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A proposal on how to deal with Monkey Patching
It's with the Faker library. I was able to reproduce it by spinning up a new rails up, specifying the faker gem , yours, and running the command gives the same error.
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Faker Gem
To begin using faker, you need to install the gem, which is simply done by running "gem install faker". After you do that, you should add "gem "faker"" to your gem file to ensure correct usage, otherwise you may get an error. Once thats done you can head over to the seeding file and add require "faker" the page. In the seeding file is where you would start to "fake" your data and we use the faker library to pick out random dummy data. In the seeding, your gonna start implementing the data which should look like this,
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Sinatra and faker you can also consider the following projects:
Hanami - The web, with simplicity.
ffaker - Faker refactored.
Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit
factory_bot - A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.
Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails
Forgery - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.
Padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.
Fabrication - This project has moved to GitLab! Please check there for the latest updates.
Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.
Fake Person - Create some fake personalities
Camping - the 5k pocket full-of-gags web microframework
FactoryTrace - Simple tool to maintain factories and traits from FactoryBot