This is a snippet ruby code for a faster initial setup of a Sinatra App. This is not meant to be a framework of any kind (yet). It's just a way of making a clean start without loosing so much time.

Also, i think Sinatra sings better with a band...

$ gem install sinatraband

require 'pathname'
require 'erb'

You need Ruby 1.9 to run SinatraBand and the Sinatra gem to run the app.

It's currently only supporting MySQL and Postgres database. But it's actually pretty easy to change the default values on the generated in config/config.rb. Take a look on ActiveRecord for help.

After setup you can do for creating a app:

$ sinatraband create app_name

Once you see the files created, you can move to the app_name directory:

$ cd app_name

Bundle the gem file with:

$ bundle

Then run the Sinatra app like you would normally do:

$ ruby app.rb

You can also create a model and it's following properties:

$ sinatraband model model_name attribute1:activerecord_type attribute2:other_activerecord_type

This also creates a sub-directory on the views directory with the name of the model and a controller file containing a basic scaffold idea. Remember that the views files called in the controller are not generated.

If you decide to create a model with the same name as another, the older model will be rewritten and the new one following your new properties will be created. That means you can lose some latter added code. So be careful when generating models.

You are on your own...

1. Fork it.
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b my_sinatraband)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Added something")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my_sinatraband)
5. Create an Issue with a link to your branch