There must be some way out of here said the programmer to the chief there's too much confusion i can get no release -- Bob Dylan

MonoRiel

MonoRiel is an attempt to fork from mini-rail which is in itself a fork from another rack project(rack-golem) into super simplistic but useful web mini-framework (MonoRiel (spanish) = monorail (english))

gem updated and uploaded, now you can:

sudo gem install monoriel

You can use config.ru as a start up file as for any rack app based

require 'models' # Loads your models and all ORM stuff
require 'app' # This is the main file
use Rack::ContentLength
use Rack::Session::Cookies
use Rack::Static, urls: ["/css","/js","/html"], root: "public" #Add this for static content
#The default folder for templates is views
run Rack::MethodOverride.new(App.new)  #Need to use this for PUT and DELETE methods

Now save this into app.rb

require 'monoriel'

class App
    include Monoriel # No classes to inherit just mixin

before do
  # Here you can do many things
  # In order to help you here are some variables you can read and override:
  # @r => the Rack::Request object
  # @res => the Rack::Response object
  # @action => Name of the public method that will handle the request
  @user.login
end

helpers do
        #altough you can write many things in the before block
        #you always need helpers for your main app
        def help(with)
            "Helping the World!" + with
        end
    end

def index(*args)
  # Used always when no public method is found
  # Of course you don't have to declare one and it is gonna use #not_found instead
  # Still can have arguments
  @articles = Post.all
  erb :index
end

def page(id=nil)
  @page = Pages[id]
  if @page.nil?
    not_found
  else
    erb :page
  end
end

def form
    #write your form here
    #add _method hidden PUT as the Form Action
end

def post_page
    #You can POST Forms and Monoriel will direct to post_* methods
    @r.params["name"]
end

def best_restaurants_json
  # Monoriel replaces dashes with underscores
  # You can trigger this handler by visiting /best-restaurants-json
  json_response({
    'title' => 'Best restaurants in town',
    'list' => Restaurant.full_list
  })

def say(listener='me', *words)
  "Hey #{listener} I don't need ERB to tell you that #{words.join(' ')}"
end

def not_found(*args)
  # This one is defined by Monoriel but here we decided to override it
  # Like :index this method receives the arguments in order to make something with it
  Email.alert('Many spam emails received') if args.includes?("spam")
  super(args)
end

def error(err, *args)
  # Again this one is defined by Monoriel and only shows up when RACK_ENV is not `nil` or `dev` or `development`
  # Default only prints "ERROR"
  # Here we're going to send the error message
  # One would rarely show that to the end user but this is just a demo
  err.message
end

after do
  @user.logout
end

end

• You need to provide the class Page in your models.
• You can use slim, haml, scss and erb templates with Monoriel
• Please use App in Samples for testing and documentation
• You can see my monoblog project for a real app sample code