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What do you like best about Sinatra?

No magic, no unicorns, just simply create your simple paths and get your web app or simple API done.

If what you are looking for is a simple, yet elegant solution, but Rails is way too much, then Sinatra is for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

Remember, it is for simple web services or web pages, but if you are scaling your Sinatra app for running daemons, many asynchronous jobs, complex UI, etc. Then, Sinatra might not be a good fit.

It was made for simple API services with none-complex database operations, anything bigger than that might require specialized software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

Do not go with the first Blockchain, complex MVC-based, RX-based or any other crazy architecture when what you are trying to solve is a simple problem, simple problems require simple solutions.

Sinatra is easy and powerful enough to get your quick API shipped with no harm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simple APIs have been made with Sinatra like a charm, no need for a complex Ruby on Rails application for a simple web service, developers just love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort:

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4.5 out of 5
"Looking for simple? Sinatra it is"
No magic, no unicorns, just simply create your simple paths and get your web app or simple API done. If what you are looking for is a simple, yet ...
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4.0 out of 5
"A simple frameworks but very complete and strong."
When I need to create a web application without any complications, Sinatra helped me and it was very nice to work with this software, its installat...
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5.0 out of 5
"easy to use"
the routing is easy to use. the erb templates are useful to use with sinatra that connects the backend with the frontend.
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What do you like best about Sinatra?

When I need to create a web application without any complications, Sinatra helped me and it was very nice to work with this software, its installation is not complicated, the barriers to learn it to use are simple in difference with other frameworks, and something that stands out this software and what I like is its emphasis for creating applications without making a minimum effort, it integrates with the user in a spectacular way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

Try to implement synatra in a large project to create multiple applications, and it usually falls or hangs up, so it's not very good when it comes to quite broad projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

It is an excellent product and if you are going to focus on making quick and light applications I recommend this product, it should be noted that it is a product for small things, as I mentioned, it is spectacular for designing small web applications and collaborates in the creation of libraries for API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

I greatly improve the way to create small libraries for API, and I collaborate with improving the capacity of some colleagues to create routes and feel comfortable in a smaller environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

Sinatra makes ruby dramatically more useful with its incredibly easy post and get extensions as well as the simple inclusion and transmission of parameters. Traditional Ruby on Rails (ROR) meant that our team had to do a lot of running around to get our in-house restful-js api to post to our payment server. What's most notable about Sinatra is just how easy it is to setup. While our previous payment api took almost a year to develop and pass quality control testing, Sinatra was completed in roughly 5 months, which was a dramatic but very welcome change from our previous implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

Quite simply (as you can tell by the name), the framework can be a bit cheesy at times, making several references to Frank Sinatra before, during, and after compilation. However, this is dramatically outweighed by the functiontionality of the contract. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

Naturally, since the framework is from a third party there is not a significant amount of support, so you will be in the dark. However, there are frequent updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Primarily, we were looking for a better framework to build our ROR (Ruby on Rails) payment servers on that offered more expandability and functionality than our in house api. As a result, we have seen significantly faster turn around times from the development team, in addition to a more efficient payment server (both in terms of post speed in addition to data requirements and cost). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

Sinatra is a smaller Ruby Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for Ruby projects. I have used Sinatra for smaller web based projects that I need to bootstrap quickly to get an iearly application running. Sinatra is very easy to get going and make things work and it has a few nice built in tools like a Router to help the developer get the project up and running quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

I guess the only thing I dislike about Sinatra is that in a way it is a limited toolset framework, which I believe is by design though. If I need more of a toolset, I will use Ruby on Rails but RoR called be too heavy for smaller projects, overkill. Sinatra to Rails is like Lumen to Laravel in PHP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

Try it out, you will see quickly how easy it is to get a simple project going. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

I mainly use Sinatra with embedded projects mostly on Raspberry Pi devices. For example, one Sinatra app I have built is a customer welcome screen that is a simple app that checks a report online every day and adds the persons name to the TV in our office if they have an appointment on the day. If not, it defaults to a standard message. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

Sinatra is an extraordinary structure for the individuals who definitely realize Rails yet need to complete a basic API or single page application.

It goes directly to the point of what you need to do. It is likewise easy to utilize and very easy to use. It is additionally very reasonable.

Sinatra is generally genuinely clear disclosing to you what's up and in which point, which is unquestionably not basic to advanced stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

I have no Problem with it, incredible Application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

Recommended to try and grab this application. Great help! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm moderately effectively making a web application, Startup web tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web-applications in Ruby with minimal effort. It’s small and flexible in nature. The web application framework is very easy to use, and it’s quite user friendly. The best thing about this is that it does not follow the typical model-view-controller pattern used in other frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

The Routes are matched in the order they’re defined and not otherwise. This is troublesome, and the work gets delayed. Gem install thin is always required to run Sinatra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. Rack middleware and error handling is marginally lesser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

Sinatra is an outstanding decision when you want something as packed with features like Rack, but lightweight like Rails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

Outside of basic Ruby libraries, there is a dearth of libraries stacked atop Sinatra; so I wish this was more popular in that regard--that would mean a larger community with a lot more libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

Definitely get Sinatra when you need a lightweight web scaffolding for Ruby. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

For application used in-house, we used Sinatra which handled the layouts, dashboard, and reports. Lightweight and user friendly, even amateurs can work with Sinatra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

the routing is easy to use. the erb templates are useful to use with sinatra that connects the backend with the frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

The documentation isn't very good. there aren't any examples just example functions if they could show example code that would be better. They should adopt a refresh system without having to restart sinatra after every change in code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

works well with ruby. It's easy to develop web applications. Currently making a task app with sinatra. Installing is super easy as well just gem install sinatra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

agile and lean, not much baggage, very light assembly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

limiting because it's so lean but that's kind of the point so... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

It's great for small things, not big things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickly prototyping ideas and getting them into the wild to prove fit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

I like that Sinatra is a fairly straightforward platform with low overhead, thoughtfully put together and extremely user-friendly, even by Ruby standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

Projects built with Sinatra don't necessarily scale as well as they would on Rails, and of course Rails offers a much more robust feature set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:

Think long-term when deciding whether to use Sinatra. It's not the right tool if what you're building is expected to grow multiple orders of magnitude eventually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Sinatra when we want to spin up a handy, fairly specific internal business tool quickly and efficiently. It can also be helpful for prototyping web apps that will eventually become much larger undertakings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sinatra?

As a financial manager, I build dashboards. Sinatra is a ruby framework that lets me build dashboards on a lightweight platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sinatra?

Sinatra is older now and something that often would run on monolith infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business problems I'm solving with sinatra is the capability to build dashboard visualizations with speed that I wouldn't be able to if I used some other application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.