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Sinatra: Up and Running
Take advantage of Sinatra, the Ruby-based web application library and domain-specific language used by GitHub, LinkedIn, Engine Yard, and other prominent organizations. With this concise book, you will quickly gain working knowledge of Sinatra and its minimalist approach to building both standalone and modular web applications. Sinatra serves as a lightweight wrapper aroun...more
Kindle Edition, 110 pages
Published
November 28th 2011
by O'Reilly Media
(first published October 31st 2011)
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Books on programming/software development have always been plagued with too much content, either failing to be concise and terse or padded with all sorts of extraneous filler or worse, taking too many words to educate an aspiring apprentice. It seems that the *C Programming Language* by Kernighan and Ritchie, the classic programmer instruction text, is a Sisyphusian goal that few are unable to achieve.
OTOH, with the explosion of ebooks, there is now the tendency to reduce the content a bit too m...more
OTOH, with the explosion of ebooks, there is now the tendency to reduce the content a bit too m...more
Finished the book in three hours straight. Content coverage is just right; couldn't think of anything in particular that this book leaves out. And the writing style clear and succinct.
The book explains Sinatra's API very well with simple and (mostly) meaningful examples. The internals are explained in the context of actual Sinatra code or a simplified version if the implementation is a little complicated. I love how the book introduces related information, but essentially beyond the scope of the...more
The book explains Sinatra's API very well with simple and (mostly) meaningful examples. The internals are explained in the context of actual Sinatra code or a simplified version if the implementation is a little complicated. I love how the book introduces related information, but essentially beyond the scope of the...more
Review is a bit padded because I assign such a high value to the somehow rare short-book format. How many times have you trudged through installation instructions for every Linux distribution on Earth, when you just want some exposure to a subject and a minor reference? I get the impression that publishers want fixed and padded page counts, and as a reader I want the opposite. I was only interested in the DSL, so I don't have any positive or negative comments to offer about the modular design se...more
It does exactly what it claims to do. It is a very fast, easy introduction to getting started with the Sinatra web framework for Ruby, a lightweight framework that avoids surprises apart from how surprisingly easy it is to get started. The book also covers a number of approaches to developing Sinatra web applications that are not well covered in online tutorials I have found. For someone who knows enough Ruby to get by, who wants to learn Sinatra, this book is a great introduction.
Sep 09, 2012
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I'm on the very beginning, seems okay! I wonder how far will i go without deep knowledge of css and html, but so far it's fine, easy going, straight to the point and also improves my understanding of ruby seems I'm an all-around newbe :-)
Very good. Gets straight to the point and doesn't skimp on the technicalities of how Sinatra works. I feel like I have a much better understanding of Sinatra apps after reading this.
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