To install the gem:

gem sources -a gems.github.com sudo gem install moomerman-rambo

Smallest example (see the hello app in the example folder)

class HomeController < Rambo::Controller

def index
  "hello world"
end

end

To run the Blog example:

git clone git://github.com/moomerman/rambo.git cd rambo/example/blog/ rake db:setup # check config.yml for your specific db settings rake server

head over to localhost:4000/

Features:

= No Ruby object base class modifications
= Lightweight and fast
= Rack-based so works with most web servers (thin, mongrel, passenger)
= Ability to proxy request to n backend app servers [experimental]
= Request caching built in
= fast static file serving
= works with erb or haml templates (more to come)
= DataMapper integration
= Library only 60k