Sinatra is a Hammer

An ignite talk about Sinatra and Rails

Transcript

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
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”