I’ve found a very cool new Ruby web framework in the vein of Camping. It’s called Sinatra, and it’s a very minimalist approach to writing RESTful applications.

A quick snippet of code to give you a feel for just how minimal things can get:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
 
get '/' do
    "Hello world"
end

Or for something more exciting with sessions:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
 
set_option :sessions, true
 
get '/' do
    session["foo"] ||= 0
    session["foo"] += 1
    "Hello world, you've asked for foo: #{session["foo"].to_s} number of times"
end

As you can see, it’s dead simple to write a trivial app.  Over the next few blog posts, I’m going to get a “semantic pastebin” up and running, complete with database access, backend jobs, form handling, and probably some other cool stuff.

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