Picciotto

A minimalistic website framework based on Padrino.

One step beyond to Sinatra, but far more lighter than Rails, Picciotto uses some Padrino's components to help you build hybrid static/dinamic websites. It's mainly composed by several opinionated tools used in everyday web development.

Features

• Haml templating
• Sass stylesheets
• HTML5 Boilerplate layout (mostly ripped from compass-html5-boilerplate and compass)
• Rspec tests
• semi-static pages (renders static haml files)

Installation

Just clone this repo:

git clone git://github.com/apeacox/picciotto.git

Customization

Add semi-static pages

Picciotto spots support for semi-static pages out of the box, just add your HAML files under

app/views/main/static/

So, if you put yourpage.html.haml, it will be rendered as:

http://example.com/yourpage

Note: You can't put files under main/static's subdirectories (ex: app/views/main/static/some_subdir/yourfile.haml), or you'll get a 404 page.

Database support

By default, Picciotto has no database support because:

• Maybe you don't need it now, so it's better start with a bare minimum codebase
• If you need a db, then choose what really fits your needs, ORM included

Other tools/gems

Edit Gemfile and add more dependencies to your needs (ex. padrino-mailer, database support, cucumber, etc...)

Go further

Read Padrino's documentation if you want to extend Picciotto to your needs.