In this release, we have added the notion of ‘project’ settings that are inherited by every Padrino application within the project. This can be used to set any properties but is particularly useful for sharing sessions across your apps. These project-wide settings are intended to live...
When reading about a new framework, I often find that the best way to get familiar is to read a brief tutorial on how to develop a simple application. This can quickly give new users a sense of the development flow and processes involved in using a framework. This guide will show new ...
Several months ago, Padrino 0.10.6 was released which included HTML5 support, improved stability and compatibility patches. Today after some unfortunate delays, we are releasing Padrino 0.10.7 which is a major bug fix and compatibility release. We investigated all major issues reporte...
Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra web library. Sinatra is a DSL for creating simple web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. This framework makes it as fun and easy as possible to code increasingly advanced web applications by enhancing Sinatra while sy...
Lately, the Ruby community has become fascinated by asynchronous and concurrent web servers, the newest of which is called Goliath . This can be advantageous for your application especially if you have a lot of traffic and slow IO or Database calls (like HTTP calls to external APIs) s...
In these instances, the ideal situation would be to cherry-pick individual enhancements and use them in your existing Sinatra application. Fortunately, Padrino is committed to allowing you to do exactly that! Each major component within Padrino can be used in isolation and applied to ...
official release of ActiveSupport 3.2 , several contributions to our codebase and some useful bug fixes, we figured the time had come for a new release. Today, we are announcing the release of Padrino 0.10.6 with ActiveSupport 3.2 compatibility, MiniRecord generator support, HTML5 Hel...
The most interesting aspect of the Padrino stack (Rack, Sinatra, et al) in comparison to other web development tools is how modular and standalone each individual piece of the stack is. This makes learning each part much easier, and allows people to be productive right away, organical...
Many people love the simplicity and expressiveness of Sinatra but quickly find themselves missing a great deal of functionality provided by other web frameworks such as Rails when building non-trivial applications. Sinatra acts as a thin layer on top of Rack itself and the “micro”-fra...
