A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about how I rapidly built my personal site using Sinatra. While I was building the site I started thinking about the best way to add JavaScript files to the pages. After playing with…
Continue Reading…Sinatra: Up and Running was published at the end of last year by O’Reilly Press and is the first book to be written exclusively about Sinatra. It is written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Haase. Konstantin is the current maintainer of Sinatra…
Continue Reading…When I started writing for Rubysource, I soon realized that I needed a website to go with my little bio at the bottom of each article. I’ve bumbled along so far by linking to various sites that I’ve written and my Twitter…
Continue Reading…The Ruby world has been blessed with more than its fair share of frameworks for developing web applications over the years. Recently, though, two of them have emerged as the clear leaders in the field. Most readers of this site will have…
Continue Reading…Urls, Uniform Resource Locator, are fundamental to the web. These are the addresses that are used for finding web pages or, more specifically, ‘resources’ as they don’t actually need to be web pages, they can be anything from images, files or even…
Continue Reading…Asynchronously Adding and Deleting Resources in Sinatra In part one of this tutorial we went through how to add and delete robots into a database. In this tutorial I’m going to show how you can leverage the XMLHttpRequest to perform actions in…
Continue Reading…Adding and Deleting Resources in Sinatra In this tutorial I’m going to go through how to use Sinatra to add and remove resources to and from a database. To demonstrate this, I’m going to build a tiny web app called The Robot…
Continue Reading…Last week, Heroku announced a new partnership with Facebook that integrates the Heroku hosting platform into Facebook app development. This is a mind-blowing bit of news, as it completely removes the burden of entry to Facebook application development. The simplicity and scale…
Continue Reading…Welcome to the last part of this series. The aim of this series of tutorials has been to take somebody who has never used Sinatra from creating an app to deploying it. You can find the other parts of the series at…
Continue Reading…In Part 2 of this tutorial, we used DataMapper to save tasks to a database back end and created a web front end that used Sinatra to show, add, delete and complete tasks. In this tutorial we will make it look a…
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