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http://www.sinatrarb.com/extensions.html#setting_options_and_other_extension_setup

Where a post is truncated, add a link to view the entire post in it's own page.

There is no rake db:create in Sinatra.

It looks like the main app file pretty much houses all the functionality (router, database config, etc.) - perhaps it would be cleaner to separate out these components and require them in

Eek! You might want to get rid of these things, asap. You can use a gitignored config file to set these (make sure to leave an example config in the project) or use environment variables -- these are the more standard practices.

It might be easier just to see a small snippet of the text rather than the entire post in the admin index view. Rails' truncate method is a good way to deal with this, although you might have to port it in to sinatra in order to get it working : )

On Heroku, the time displayed is not for the user's timezone.

If there are two posts with the same :url, the system will just return back the first one it finds.

Get URI to parse the database_url that can be seen with heroku config. Otherwise, the information has to be manually entered for each different application.

require 'active_record'
require 'uri'

db = URI.parse(ENV['DATABASE_URL'] || 'postgres://localhost/mydb')

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter  => db.scheme == 'postgres' ? 'postgresql' : db.scheme,
  :host     => db.host,
  :port     => db.port,
  :username => db.user,
  :password => db.password,
  :database => db.path[1..-1],
  :encoding => 'utf8'
)

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rack#database-access

Should the admin be able to edit published posts?

Currently, the admin is not able to.

Add a back button that remembers if you came from the index or admin (and what page).

Pagination on both the index and admin pages.

So it's not in an open repo