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What?

Sinatra - the sleekest ruby server out there. Very appropriately named

Why?

I have a good friend who’s learning to program - we started with ruby, and are now venturing into the messy world of html/css/javascript.

One of the biggest challenges in getting started with this stuff is to *get started.* Installation of Apache is not necessarily difficult, but if you want more dynamic scripting (say ruby), things can get messy.

Sinatra makes it super easy. 

How?

Super easy. Just:

sudo gem install sinatra
echo "require 'rubygems'; require 'sinatra'" > sinatra-server.rb
ruby sinatra-server.rb
# == Sinatra has taken the stage on port 4567 for development

That’s it. now go enjoy sinatra at http://localhost:4567.

To handle a request, simply edit your sinatra-server.rb file:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra' 

get "/:name" do
  "Hello #{params[:name]}!"
end

Find more details in this great Sinatra tutorial. 

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