Basic Sinatra v2 App with Sprockets, Warden, ActiveRecord and PostgresQL

Take this as a working example and as an inspiration. Pull Requests are welcome 🙏

Have you tried Roda?

think sinatra is nice? Don't forget to give Roda a chance!

What this Project aims to be

This repository aims to be a boilerplate for a modular and modern (v2) Sinatra app.

demo on heroku (admin area is locked up 😉)

please check out the credits section! Without the community, this never would have been possible. Thank you.

• Why?
• What is in?
• Get started
• Credits

Feel free to contribute, add more features, strip features or simply improve existing code - pull requests welcome 😄

Why not Rails?

Sinatra is a ruby/rack framework, that can be used as an alternative where Rails would simply be an overkill.

I started working my way through the sinatra docs, aiming for a setup that can easily be modeled to a basic use case.

Have you tried Roda, Sequel and Rodauth?

Yes! And I totally use that setup whenever possible (November 2021) and you should try at least roda as a POC 😎 I am 100 % serious! There's nothing wrong with sinatra, but roda kills it - give its plugins and how you do thing a grind. The journy will undoubtedly make you a better (ruby) programmer.

What is in?

I want this Sinatra boilerplate app to:

• work with Bundler
• use ORM is ActiveRecord
• have an MVC-like structure
• support Sass/Scss and CoffeeScript
• party with jQuery and Turbolinks! Yes, Turbolinks.
• rolls with a very basic bcrypt/warden based Authentication System
• use PostgresQL as Database
• run on heroku (don't forget: $ heroku config:add APP_ENV=production)

Get started

You need Ruby (>= 2.7) and Bundler (of course).

Have you heard of frozen_string_literal? No? Read this

If you do not have a local PostgresQL DB running, heroku can handle the code as is - do not forget to add Heroku PostgresQL addon in your dashboard.

• $ git clone
• $ bundle install
• edit config/database.yml
• $ rake db:setup
• $ thin start or rerun rackup (rerun gem - not included by default!)
• edit titles in views/layout.haml and views/nav.haml
• check/set timezone config/timezone.rb

now what?

• read the credits
• read the code
• run the code, see what it does
• delete what you don't need and built from there, should a barebone branch be offered? What do you think? 😁

Most code is commented, so you'll learn what it does.

What needs to be done

• enable flash messages, especially for validation feedback

Contribute

• Send in pull requests, improve this project with features or simply by adding/improving comments 😁
• Be nice, make public forks
• What did you use this app for? Please, let me know! Share your projects.

Credits / Blood, Sweat & Tears

❤️ 😓 😭

Contributors to this project

https://github.com/simonneutert/sinatras-skeleton/graphs/contributors

thank you for open sourcing, writing documentation, blogging, answering and giving a hand on stackoverflow 👍

Warden

sklises repo

Steve Klise Blog post

Coderwall on Sinatra + Warden

What Ches wrote up

What Mike Ebert wrote

ActiveRecord + PostgresQL

mherman

samuelstern

BCrypt

Kieran's Answer on StackOverflow

BCrypt Gem

Sprockets

Sinatra Recipe for Sprockets

Official Sinatra Docs

Sinatra Intro

Sinatra recipes