How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application

• Sinatra

  10 12,095 8.4 Ruby

  Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)

  

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".

• Rack

  23 4,833 7.4 Ruby

  A modular Ruby web server interface.

  

Because of its lightweight and Rack-based architecture, Sinatra is great for building APIs, mountable app engines, command-line tools, and simple apps like the one we'll build in this tutorial.

• InfluxDB

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• cost_calc_app

  1 3 10.0 HTML

  A Sinatra app to help digital nomads know if they can afford to live in a city given how much they earn. This app was built to accompany the blog post "How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application"

You can also get the full code for the example app here.

• Thin

  3 2,261 3.4 Ruby

  A very fast & simple Ruby web server

This one file contains everything needed for this simplified app to run. Run it with ruby main.rb, which should spin up an instance of the Thin web server (the default web server that comes with Sinatra). Visit localhost:4567 and you'll see the JSON response.

• AppSignal

  8 172 9.0 Ruby

  🟥 AppSignal for Ruby gem

  

Once you've successfully deployed your Sinatra app, you can easily use Appsignal's Ruby APM service. AppSignal offers an integration for Rails and Rack-based apps like Sinatra.

• sinatra-datamapper

  1 2 10.0 Ruby

  Discontinued A Sinatra extension for DataMapper support.

Database adapter and ORM gems included in the Gemfile. We are using ActiveRecord for our app. Datamapper is another option you could use.

• rubygems

  212 3,550 9.9 Ruby

  Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

  

# Gemfile source "https://rubygems.org" # Ruby version ruby "3.0.4" gem 'sinatra' gem 'activerecord' gem 'sinatra-activerecord' # ORM gem gem 'sinatra-contrib' gem 'thin' gem 'rake' gem 'faraday' group :development do gem 'sqlite3' # Development database adaptor gem gem 'tux' # gives you access to an interactive console similar to 'rails console' gem 'dotenv' end group :production do gem 'pg' # Production database adaptor gem end

• WorkOS

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• Bulma

  157 48,572 8.4 SCSS

  Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox

We also add a local copy of Bulma CSS and a custom stylesheet in public/css to provide styling for our app.

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