Basic Sinatra ~v3~ v4 🥳 App with Sprockets, Warden, ActiveRecord and Postgres

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!
browse through my repos 😉😇

What this Project aims to be

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

there used to be a demo on heroku, but heroku is no more 🪦

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 :smile:

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. The journey 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 (>= 3.2) and Bundler (of course).

$ git clone
$ bundle install
edit config/database.yml
$ rake db:setup
$ bundle exec puma or rerun rackup (rerun gem - not included by default!)
visit localhost:9292 in your browser
edit titles in views/layout.erb and views/nav.erb
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? :grin:

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 :grin:
Be nice, make public forks
What did you use this app for? Please, let me know! Share your projects.