A while back I wanted to look at a second framework to complement working with Rails. It needed to be lean, easy to pickup and have an established community behind it. I had intended to learn Merb, but a couple of weeks after I decided this the big announcement that Merb and Rails were to be merged was made. Bugger.
Recently I started to look at other frameworks built using Ruby that I could learn. Last week, I seen that Jeremy McNally had been teaching middle school students Ruby and Sinatra, and the end product was the Awesome Math Game (source code).
Intrigued, I started to look at the source code for the application that the students at built. Seeing the simplicity of a Sinatra application has really started me thinking about what can be done with this framework.
I’ll keep you posted on my progress and findings on the framework and hopefully in a couple of months complete a project of sorts using the framework.
