awesome-sinatra 
A curated list of awesome projects made or inspired with Sinatra.
Contents
General
Generators
- Corneal - A
Sinatra app generator with Rails-like simplicity.
- Hazel - A simple Sinatra
app generator, heavily based on snfn.
- Snfn - A Sinatra
application generator.
Authroization
Authentication
- hancock - An OpenID
based Single Sign On server with a simple API, written in Sinatra
- hancock-client
- A sinatra app and rack middleware piece for the hancock SSO
server
- sinatra-oauth-provider
- A Sinatra OAuth Provider.
Blogging
- Blorgit - A simple
org-mode based, git amenable, blogging engine running on sinatra.
- Haze - A minimalistic
blogging engine, the successor of Honk (~200 LOC).
- Honk - A minimalistic,
YAML, text-based blogging engine.
- Marley - Minimalist
blogging engine without textareas based on Markdown, Ruby, Sinatra and
Git push hooks.
- Postview - A
simple blog-engine that render text files written in Markdown.
- Scanty - A
really small blogging software.
- Scanty with CouchDB
- Scanty using CouchDB.
- scanty-redis -
Scanty using redis.
- sin - A mini blog
engine in Sinatra with hAtom and MetaWeblog API and S3 upload support
(~160 LOC).
- Sinandra - A
blog engine using Sinatra and Cassandra.
- Wind - HTML5
blog engine focused in a easy, extensible and fast admin.
- Yet-another-Sinatra-Blog-Engine
- A simple blog engine written in Ruby using Sinatra.
Boilerplate and Template
- Frank-Sinatra -
A boilerplate for modular MVC style Sinatra (1.4.2^) applications.
- puresong - A small
Sinatra application that demonstrates use of Pure CSS with SQLite.
- ratpack -
Sinatra boilerplate using activerecord, sqlite, and twitter
bootstrap.
- sinatra-boilerplate
- Starter Kit for Sinatra Apps. It uses Twitter Bootstrap 3, jQuery and Modernizr
- sinatra-boilerplate
- Another boilerplate combined with HTML 5 Boilerplate, Compass, CoffeeScript and Sprockets.
- sinatra-boilerplate
- Sinatra, Zurb Foundation, Guard, Slim, Compass, RSpec, Capybarra… All
the bling ready to go.
- sinatra-boilerplate
- Sinatra + Haml + Sass + Compass + Bourbon + CoffeeScript.
- sinatra-foundation-skeleton
- A skeleton Sinatra application which utilizes Zurb’s Foundation 3
framework.
- sinatra-template -
A base Sinatra application template with DataMapper, and RSpec.
- sinatra-twitter-bootstrap
- Twitter Bootstrap Sinatra extension with HAML helpers.
- sinforum - Simple
forum build with Sinatra, DataMapper, Haml, SASS and CoffeeScript.
Continuous Integration
CMS
- Nesta - A lightweight
CMS, implemented in Sinatra. Content can be written in Markdown or
Textile and stored in text file
- Spontaneous -
An CMS with intuitive, attractive and responsive HTML5 interface
Debugging and Profiling
For more, check the “Middlewares for Debugging or Profiling” section
in awesome-rack
- Better
Errors - Better Errors replaces the standard Rails error page with a
much better and more useful error page. It is also usable outside of
Rails in any Rack app as Rack middleware.
- rack-mini-profiler
- Middleware that displays speed badge for every html page. A simple but
effective mini-profiler for .NET, Ruby, Go and Node.js. Introduced in Railscasts #368
MiniProfiler
- racksh - Console for
Rack based ruby web apps. It’s like script/console in Rails (~ 100 LOC)
or merb -i in Merb, but for any app built on Rack. Thanks to
Rack::Test::Methods (from rack-test) and Ruby REPLs (pry and irb).
- tux - A sinatra shell
to interacte with helpers, view rendering and to view your app’s routes
and settings.
Email
File Uploading
- CarrierWave
- A classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby
web frameworks.
Internet Application Clones
- chirp - Simple
Sinatra-based micro-blog/Twitter clone.
- shorty - URL
shortener written in Sinatra & MongoDB.
Micro Frameworks inspired
by Sinatra
- Angelo -
Sinatra-like DSL for Reel that supports WebSockets and SSE in their own
thread, called “cells” (or actors).
- Dolly - Minimal
Ruby microframework inspired by Sinatra.
- Gin - A small Ruby web
framework, built on Rack, which borrows from Sinatra expressiveness, and
targets larger applications.
- Hobbit - A
minimalistic microframework built on top of Rack (thanks to
Rack::Builder). Hobbit is a DSL inspired by Sinatra. (~ 150
LOC).
- Nancy - Minimal
Ruby microframework for web development inspired in
Sinatra
and Cuba (~150 LOC).
- padrino -
Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.
- Rack::App - Bare
bone minimalistic (masochistic) pico framework for building rack apps.
Inspired by sinatra, grape and the pure use form of Rack.
- Sin - A multi-app web-app
DSL derived from Sinatra, riding on rack. Sin is a rebuild of sinatra,
splitting up the classes into files and going for a reusable application
class.
- Scorched -
Light-weight, DRY as a desert, web framework for Ruby. Simliar to
Sinatra. Scorched is a true evolutionary enhancement of Sinatra, with
more power, focus, and less clutter.
Micro
Frameworks inspired by Sinatra (Other Languages)
- Bash: Astley, sh.inatra
- C: Bogart
- C++: Garland
- Clojure: Compojure
- CoffeeScript: Zappa
- Crystal: frank, kemal
- Dart: Start
- Elixir: Plug, Spirit
- Erlang: Fresh, Spooky
- Haskell: Bird,
Miku, Scotty
- Go: Martini, Spooky
- Groovy: Graffiti
- Java: Spark
- JavaScript: Express, Sammy
- Julia: Moresel.jl
- Lua: Mercury, Orbit
- .NET: Martini,
Nancy, Nina
- Perl: Dancer, Mojolicious
- PHP: FatFree, Fitzgerald, Klein, Zaphpa
- Python: itty, Flask
- Scala: Finatra, Scalatra
- Vala: Valatra
NoSQL
Column
- Sinandra - A
blog engine using Sinatra and Cassandra.
Document
- sinatra-mongo
- A light extension to sinatra for using mongo.
- sinatra-mongoid - A
Mongoid (ODM, Object-Document-Mapper for MongoDB) extension for
Sinatra.
Key-value
ORM
- bowtie - Simple admin
interface generator for MongoMapper (mongo) & DataMapper (dm)
models.
- sinatra-activerecord
- Extends Sinatra with ActiveRecord helper methods and Rake tasks.
- sinatra-datamapper
- A Sinatra extension for DataMapper ORM support.
- sinatra-sequel -
Sinatra extension that adds Sequel ORM features, database config, and
database migrations.
Routers
- http_router_sinatra
- Kick ass router for Sinatra based on http_router.
- SimpleRouter -
Small and simple standalone router, meant for use with Rack
applications. Familiar Sinatra-like DSL for defining actions. Modular
architecture.
- sinatra-advanced-routes
- Make Sinatra routes first class objects (extracted from BigBand).
- sinatra-router - A
tiny vendorable router that makes it easy to try routes from a number of
different modular Sinatra applications
Service Integration
Slack
- beach - Small Sinatra
app to host web hooks for Slack.
- dogetip-slack
- Sinatra app to enable Dogecoin tipping via slack
- doorbell-server
- Simple Sinatra app which acts a bridge between Slack and the LMN
doorbell.
- snarkov -
Sinatra-based Markov bot for Slack.
MISC
- frankie - a
Sinatra plugin allows you to easily create a Facebook application.
- shopify-sinatra-app
- Lightweight extension for building Shopify apps using Sinatra
Stylesheets
- sinatra-compass
- Integrates the Compass stylesheet framework with Sinatra.
- haml-more - Adds more
functionality to Haml and Sass.
Testing
- cucumber-sinatra -
Help you to initialize a cucumber environment for a sinatra application.
It will generate the required files from templates.
- mumuki-ruby-server
- Sinatra server for running Rspec tests within Mumuki. Mumukit is a Test
Server Development Kit.
- mock_server -
A lightweight Sinatra application backed by sqlite that can mock ReST
responses. Has interface to easily create, search & maintain
mocks.
- rspec-sinatra
- Help you to initialize a RSpec environment for a sinatra application.
It will generate the required files from templates.
Wiki Engine
- bliki - A small
blog + wiki engine built on Sinatra + Stone.
- git-wiki - A quick
& dirty git-powered Sinatra wiki (~200 LOC).
- lilwiki -
A small wiki backed by sqlite.
- rikiki - Tiny wiki
engine using in browser markdown and Sinatra.
- Weaky - A basic
CouchDB/Sinatra wiki.
Writing APIs
- API-mock-server
- A Full-Featured API Mock Server built with Sinatra and MongoDB.
- Pliny - Pliny
helps Ruby developers write and maintain excellent APIs.
- pliny-template -
Base Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby
- sinatra-hat -
Easy REST-ful apps with Sinatra. Mount models as web services.
- sinatra-reset -
Generates RESTful routes for the models of a Sinatra application
(ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Stone)
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