| Framework | Require | License | Download | Review | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | Ruby 1.8.7, RubyGems | MIT |  |  | |
| Merb | Ruby | MIT | | | |
| Ramaze | Ruby 1.9 or JRuby or MRI | Ruby license | | | |
| Halcyon | Rack, RubiGen | MIT | | | |
| Sinatra | Ruby, RubyGems | Miscellaneous | | | |
| Webby | Ruby, Rake, RubyGems | MIT | | | |
| Sass | Ruby, RubyGems, Ruby on Rails | MIT | | |
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.
It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
Who is already on Rails?
Tens of thousands of Rails applications are already live.
People are using Rails in the tiniest part-time operations to the biggest companies.
Who is behind it?
Rails was created in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson and has since been extended by the Rails core team, more than 1,400 contributors, and supported by a vibrant ecosystem.
Source: Ruby on Rails
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Merb is an MVC framework that is ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic, preferring plugins that add in support for a particular feature rather than trying to produce a monolithic library with everything in the core. In fact, this is a guiding principle of the project, which has led to third-party support for the ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and Sequel ORMs.
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In addition, it means that the core code in Merb is kept simple and well organized. This has multiple benefits.
It means it’s faster for one thing. It’s also easier to understand, maintain and extend.
Merb is already packed with good stuff; flexible routing, gem plugins, the provides API, part and mail controllers etc. To get a better idea check out the features.
Source: Merbivore
Because of Ramaze’s modular design, you are free to use your favourite technologies and tools.
Any Ruby
Any Adapter
Any ORM
Any Template Engine
Source: Ramaze
Halcyon is a JSON Web App Framework built on Rack for speed and light weight. Halcyon has several aims and goals, including:
Simply put, Halcyon is a web application framework with a twist. The twist is simply that Halcyon applications communicate solely through JSON, both incoming and outgoing.
What is Halcyon for?
This is the question most often asked about Halcyon, what is Halcyon for? If Rails (and Merb et al) is for quickly developing web applications, Halcyon aims to provide a framework for developing service-oriented applications (SOAs) such as APIs or other non-interfaced services.
The Twitter API is a great example of a SOA where tweets can be submitted without needing any web interface. The power of this type of application is that other client-side applications can be developed to provide an interface to the web service.
Halcyon aims to make writing these types of application interfaces and other similar services trivial.
Source: Halcyon
Sinatra was designed and developed by Blake Mizerany (bmizerany) in California. Continued development would not be possible without the ongoing financial support provided by Heroku and the emotional support provided by Adam Wiggins of Heroku, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and the rest of the GitHub crew.
Source: Sinatrarb
Webby is a fantastic little website management system. It would be called a content management system if it were a bigger kid. But, it’s just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And that’s really all it does – manages the legwork of turning text into something else, an ASCII Alchemist if you will.
Webby works by combining the contents of a page with a layout to produce HTML. The layout contains everything common to all the pages – HTML headers, navigation menu, footer, etc. – and the page contains just the information for that page. You can use your favorite markup language to write your pages; Webby supports quite a few.
Install Webby and try it out!
Features
Source: Webby
Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is CSS, plus nested rules, variables, mixins, and more, all in a concise, readable syntax.
“Using SASS has not only improved my CSS, but also the page structure/layout, and decreased IE headaches. Super highly recommended.†- Matt Darby
“If I were to write a post about how much Haml and Sass have changed the way I develop for the web … I’d write an elaborate sonnet about how Sass makes CSS almost usable for developers who like to keep things DRY.†- Jack Canty, Hoopla!
“I am a huge fan of Sass (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) for styling Rails applications. I have been using it on all of my projects for quite a while now and have developed some great techniques that make it much easier to organize, write, and read stylesheets in an application. Sass retains most of the same “feel†when writing the code as vanilla CSS. It simply adds more power and better organizational tools, making it an easy choice as a go-to replacement.†- Michael Bleigh, Intridea
Source: Sass
