Background

Sinator is Sinatra application generator. It will generate Sinatra application with minimum configuration. The reasons behind this project because I want to create many small web application based on sinatra with other third party ruby gems as foundation.

Features

Generate Sinatra based web application without database
Generate Sinatra based web application with PostgreSQL database configuration and Sequel as ORM
Rake task for assets precompile and assets clean

Installation

gem install sinator

with Bundler, put this code in your Gemfile:

gem 'sinator'

How to Use

Generate app in current directory without database.

sinator -n my_app

Generate app in target directory without database.

sinator -n my_app -t target/dir

Generate app in current directory with database. -d option will generate app with Sequel ORM and PostgreSQL adapter.

sinator -n my_app -d

Run web server on localhost.

bundle exec puma

Run application console / interactive mode / IRB.

bundle exec tux

Example Usage

This example assume that PostgreSQL is already running. See github.com/kuntoaji/todo_sinator for Todo Application generated with Sinator.

run sinator -n my_app -d
cd my_app
run bundle install
configure your database setting in config/database.yml
create database with createdb my_app_development.
create file db/migrations/001_create_artists.rb and put the following code:

  Sequel.migration do
    up do
      create_table(:artists) do
        primary_key :id
        String :name, :null=>false
      end
    end

    down do
      drop_table(:artists)
    end
  end

run rake db:migrate
create file app/models/Artist.rb and put the following code:

  class Artist < Sequel::Model
  end

create file app/routes/artists.rb and put the following code:

  class MyApp
    get '/artists' do
      @artists = Artist.all
      erb :"artists/index"
    end

    post '/artists' do
      @artist = Artist.new
      @artist.name = params[:name]
      @artist.save

      redirect '/artists'
    end
  end

create file app/views/artists/index.erb and put the following code:

  <h1>List of Artist</h1>
  <ul>
    <% @artists.each do |artist| %>
      <li><%= artist.name %></li>
    <% end %>
  </ul>

  <form action="/artists" method="post">
    <%= Rack::Csrf.tag(env) %>
    <input type="text" name="name" />
    <button>Submit</button>
  </form>

run the server bundle exec puma
open url localhost:9292/artists
Enjoy! :)