Simple

Simple web development framework for Ruby.

Installation

Notes: Simple is very new and still under development. Feel free to create ticket and report about bug or improvement or addition.

put this line in your Gemfile

gem "simple"

or install with gem command line

gem install bundler

Features

Built on top of Rack and http_router
Insanely small ruby web framework - < 100 LC
Blazingly fast benchmark
Inspired by Sinatra
Works with Thin, Unicorn, Pow, Heroku
Easy to write your own Ruby web application.

Basic Usage

The little snippet of the famous hello world web application.

# config.ru

require 'simple'

class Example < Simple::Base

  # GET /
  get "/" do
    [200, {"Content-Type" => "text/plain"}, ["Hello World"]]
  end

  # GET /hello
  get "/:message" do
    # params[:message]
  end

  # POST /users
  post "/users" do
    # User.create or etc
  end

  # GET /api/v1/users/online.xml
  namespace :api do
    namespace :v1 do
      get "/users/online" do
        # json/xml output
      end
    end
  end

end

run Example

This would create a Rack application.

TODO

Before/After Filters
Helpers (Form/Link/etc)
Render Templates
Rails style router (match "/hi" => "controller#action")
And much more.

Contribution