Awesome Sinatra

A curated list of awesome things related to Sinatra

Table of Contents

• General
• Generators
• Authentication
• Boilerplate and Template
• Concurrency
• CMS
• File Uploading
• Micro Frameworks inspired by Sinatra
• NoSQL
• ORM
• Routers
• Views
• Validation & Type Coercion
• Middleware
• Security
• Service Integration
• Server Side Rendering
• Stylesheets
• Testing
• Writing APIs

General

• Sinatra - Sinatra Official website.
• Sinatra on Github
• Sinatra Recipes - Community contributed recipes and techniques.
• Sinatra - The Book - A cookbook full of excellent tutorials and recipes for developing Sinatra web applications.
• Sinatra in the wild - Various applications, extensions and websites built with Sinatra.

Generators

• corneal - A Sinatra app generator with Rails-like simplicity.
• sinator - Sinatra application generator.
• hoboken - Sinatra project generator and templates.

Authentication

• sinatra_warden - Authentication module for sinatra and some auth helpers.
• doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider.
• sinatra_omniauth - A Sinatra extension that provides pure OmniAuth goodness to your application (with DataMapper).

Boilerplate and Template

• sinatra-bootstrap - A demonstrator for Sinatra and Twitter's Bootstrap.
• simple-sinatra-mvc - Simple Sinatra MVC template.
• sinatra_boilerplate - Basic template Sinatra website, with Twitter Bootstrap and ActiveRecord.
• sinatras-skeleton - Basic Sinatra Skeleton MVC CRUD App with Sprockets, Warden, ActiveRecord and PostgreSQL.
• scoop - A production-ready Sinatra boilerplate project using Corneal, ActiveRecord, Capistrano, Puma & Nginx.
• sinatra-activerecord-starter-kit - Sinatra Active Record Starter Kit.
• sinatra-mongodb-grape - Sinatra, MongoDB and Grape Template.

Concurrency

• async_sinatra - A plugin for Sinatra to provide a DSL extension for using Thin for asynchronous responses.

CMS

• nesta - A lightweight CMS, implemented in Sinatra. Content can be written in Markdown or Textile and stored in text file

File Uploading

• carrierwave - A classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks.

Micro Frameworks inspired by Sinatra

• nancy - Minimal Ruby microframework for web development inspired in Sinatra and Cuba.
• padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.
• rack::app - Minimalist framework for building rack applications.
• scorched - Light-weight, DRY as a desert, web framework for Ruby.

NoSQL

Key-value

• redis-sinatra - Redis stores for Sinatra.
• redis_dashboard - Sinatra app to monitor Redis servers.

ORM

• sinatra-activerecord - Extends Sinatra with ActiveRecord helper methods and Rake tasks.
• otr-activerecord - Off The Rails: Use ActiveRecord with Grape, Sinatra, Rack, or anything else!

Routers

• sinatra-router - A tiny vendorable router that makes it easy to try routes from a number of different modular Sinatra applications.
• sinatra-subdomain - Separate routes for subdomains in Sinatra apps.
• yard-sinatra - Display sinatra routes in yard documentation.
• sinatra-mapping - Sinatra::Mapping extension is a minimal module that is useful for create map names for Sinatra web application.

Views

• sinatra-partial - Partials for Sinatra!
• kaminari-sinatra - Kaminari Sinatra adapter.
• sinatra-flash - Flash messages for the Sinatra.
• sinatra-redirect-with-flash - Provides redirect helper that can set proper flash before the redirection.

Validation & Type Coercion

• sinatra-param - Parameter Validation & Type Coercion for Sinatra.

Middleware

• amnesia - A Sinatra rack middleware that presents memcached server stats.
• rack_csrf - Anti-CSRF Rack middleware.
• rack-insight - Debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middleware.

Security

• encrypted_cookie - AES-128 encrypted session cookies for Rack (and Sinatra and other frameworks).

Service Integration

Slack

• snarkov - A hilarious Sinatra-based Markov bot for Slack.

MISC

• shopify-sinatra-app - Lightweight extension for building Shopify apps using Sinatra.

Server Side Rendering

• react-sinatra - React on Sinatra Integration, Server Side Rendering.

Stylesheets

• sinatra-asset-pipeline - An asset pipeline for Sinatra based on Sprockets.
• sprockets-helpers - Asset path helpers for Sprockets 2.0 applications.

Testing

• mock_server - A lightweight Sinatra application backed by sqlite that can mock ReST responses. Has interface to easily create, search & maintain mocks. No need to program mocks into a language specific implementation.
• rack-test - Rack::Test is a small, simple testing API for Rack apps.

Writing APIs

• Pliny - An opinionated toolkit for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.
• sinatra-jsonp - JSONP output helper for Sinatra.
• sinatra-rest-api - Sinatra REST API generator.
• sinja - RESTful, {json:api}-compliant web services in Sinatra.