Ryan Tomayko

Sinatra 1.0 FAQ —

We pushed out a Sinatra 1.0 pre-release. The FAQ includes some info on what the 1.0 release means and how to prepare for it.

Rack 1.1 released —

Lots of needed fixes and some new features in this release, including new Config, ETag, Sendfile, and Logger middlewares, Carl and Yehuda’s rackup to Rack::Server conversion, multipart fixes, and a bunch of optimizations by Eric Wong.

Huge props to Josh Peek for putting his head down man'ing the patch queue on this one.

Installing Varnish with nginx, Passenger, and Monit on Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid —

Nice stack.

PeepCode: Meet Sinatra —

Brand new PeepCode screencast on Sinatra by Dan Benjamin. The production on this thing is really exceptional and they get into some meaty topics. Highly recommended.

Full Stack ETag Support —

This is how I am using Rack::Cache, Sinatra, and CouchDB … Sweet ascii diagram there. I’ve seen this ETag chaining technique twice just this week. The other one is gemcutter. They store gems in S3 and pass the S3 provided ETag along in their responses, so it’s like the web app is more of an intermediary sometimes. Weird and cool and interesting.

How to Build Sinatra on Rails 3 —

Kudos to everyone hacking on Rails 3. This is a great demonstration of how far they’ve come in making it possible to pull in only the bits you need, without gem hell and activesupport spewing all over everything. Also, if you have an opportunity to see Yehuda’s “shit that’s happening in Rails 3” presentation, take it.

Monk —

Nice looking Sinatra + Redis web framework with some novel concepts. Comes with a generator-like system as well: Skeletons are public git repos that are cloned into your local work tree. I’ve always wondered why this kind of project template system never took off before. Absolutely elegant.

sinatra-sequel —

Sequel has become my ORM of choice for Sinatra apps backed by a SQL database. This is a quick Sinatra extension I threw together to remove some of the boilerplate required to get a new app setup. It includes a simple single-file migrations framework and some other stuff. See the README for examples.

Sinatra Rack And Middleware —

Amazing! I put Ben under the table that night. Tucked him into bed and gave him a kiss.

djng—a Django powered microframework —

Simon Willison is working on python web microframework based on Django. This will get interesting. Fast.

Bigcurl: Running Sinatra apps on Google AppEngine (Java) —

This is why simple is better. Sinatra probably runs well on any compatible ruby with a Rack handler.

Rack::Test released: Simply test any Rack-compatible app —

Nice. This is very similar to the Sinatra::Test module but with a few additional features (i.e., the session/cookiejar thingy). If this gets traction (and it will), we’ll deprecate Sinatra::Test and recommend people use Rack::Test instead.

Deploy Merb, Sinatra, or any Rack App to Heroku —

I worked on this a bit. Jazzed to see it announced. Actually, they pretty much had everything working when I got there. I wrote some docs and tightened things up a bit is all.

Now go deploy something – it’s free!

Twitter / sinatra —

Harry Vangberg put together a Twitter relay bot in #sinatra (nick: nancie) so a bunch of the cool cats there are keeping the @sinatra twitter feed lit up with a stream links, tips, and announcements.

Ryan Tomayko on the Ruby on Rails Podcast —

Geoffrey Grosenbach interviewed me yesterday for the Ruby on Rails podcast. We had a nice chat about Python/WSGI, Rack, Sinatra, Rack::Cache, Heroku, and other random stuff.

The Future of Deployment —

I started full time with Heroku last Wednesday. This is why.

Sinatra —

We gave the Sinatra website a major face lift. Check it out. Don’t leave without subscribing to the feed.

Classy Web Development with Sinatra (Screencast) —

The Prag’s have published two screencasts in a new series on Sinatra.

Integrity - The easy and fun automated continuous integration server —

Ruby based continuous integration server that rocks. Built on Sinatra and DataMapper. Painless setup, beautiful web UI, hooks up to GitHub. I wish I’d went and looked at this earlier.

When in Doubt, Turn to _why —

Magnus Holm disects a couple of implementations for parsing nested form parameters (e.g., “person[name]=Joe&person[zip]=55555”) in Ruby. _why’s is the most interesting (as always). We just added this to Sinatra and I’m fairly confident we’ll see something like it land in Rack before 1.0.

Multiple Sinatra .90 applications in one process —

Tanner Burson talks about one of the larger accomplishments of the Sinatra 0.9.0 release. We definitely need more docs on using Sinatra in this fashion.

[ANN] Sinatra 0.9.0 released! —

I put a lot of work into this release. Really happy to see it out :)

Sinatra: 29 Links and Resources For A Quicker, Easier Way to Build Webapps —

Peter Cooper: “Lots of awesome articles about Sinatra, Sinatra apps, and various links and resources have cropped up over the past few months. The remainder of this post links to the best we’ve found – most of which you should find useful as you start to explore Sinatra in detail.”

RubyConf 2008: Lightweight Web Services —

Adam Wiggins and Blake Mizerany’s presentation on Sinatra and RestClient.

Building a iPhone web app in under 50 lines with Sinatra and iUI —

Nicely done. I have to take a serious look at iUI one of these days. It sounds like you can get really close to a native app experience.

Don't Fear the URLs —

Adam Wiggins on Sinatra’s blasphemous approach to controllers and routing. AKA: the thing that makes Sinatra my web layer of choice (well, that and throw :halt).

Gittr: cschneid's weblog —

cschneid has been helping me get the collection of hacks I’ve come to call a weblog into shape for some kind of release. He’s also been writing a lot of great Sinatra tips and tricks here. Check it out.