Sinatra is a Hammer

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1. 1 Sinatra is a Hammer

2. 2 Websites CSS, Javascript, Forms Emails, Admin, Database Caching, Security

3. 3 Sinatra doesn't give you any of those things

4. 4 Rails is a better hammer

5. 6 Rails gives you lots for free Caching Emailing Migrations

   Autoloading Testing View helpers Asset pipeline Generators Namespacing Activerecord

6. 7 And things you might not realize Data seeding Localization

   Mountable Engines Cookie abstraction Browser standards mode Session deserialization

7. 8 But wait there’s more... Complex Routing Handling of IP

   Spoofing Automatic reloading in development Deserialization of content types like JSON, XML Content negotiation to automatically support MIMEs

8. 9 Security Encrypted cookie store CSRF protection XSS protetion Mass

   assignment SQL injection projection Secure password (rails 3.1) Log filtering

9. 10 Community People Plugins Tutorials Shared problems Popular apps

10. 11 Spiking Scaffold code Ship fast Turn into production app

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12. 12 The enforced structure

13. 13 Maintainability

14. 13 Predicability

15. 14 Work smarter

16. 15 You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake

17. 16 The downsides of using rails Performance Learning curve Hammertime

18. 18 Padrino Good bits of rails built on top of

    Sinatra Structure Helpers Performance

19. 19 What is sinatra good for? Non-trivial middleware to support

    larger Embedded web interfaces Non-standard apps Internal services Applications Tiny apps Hacking Fun

20. 20 “It depends”