Meet Sinatra
Learn the basics of Sinatra: configuration, handlers, blocks, and templates.
What you'll learn
As a developer, you're always looking for ways to write faster applications with less code. The Sinatra framework hits a sweet spot for writing small, fast web applications and web services with Ruby. In this course, Dan Benjamin teaches the basics of Sinatra: configuration, handlers, blocks, and templates. You'll master these techniques by writing a simple ad server to manage and deliver images, Javascript, and HTML. You'll enhance the application to track clicks using DataMapper and Sqlite3 to store and manage the data.
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About the author
Dan is a broadcaster, writer, software developer, designer, and ex-corporate stooge. He is the founder of 5by5, an Internet broadcasting and podcast network where he hosts a handful of shows with people like Merlin Mann, John Siracusa, Marco Arment, and Jeffrey Zeldman. He is the author of Bacon Method and Hivelogic, and has written for A List Apart and O'Reilly. Many of Dan's screencasts live at PeepCode. He has been coding for almost two decades, making things like the Email Address Enkoder, t... more