Padrino is a Ruby web framework built upon the Sinatra web library.
Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great!
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Released on September 13, 2020
Lightweight
The Padrino code base has been kept simple and easy to understand, maintain and enhance. The generator for each new project creates a clean and compact directory structure keeping your code simple and well organized.
Padrino strives to adhere to the following basic principles:
Tiny and fast. Clean and compact. Creative and concise.
This framework can be used with ease for web development for a project of any size from your lightweight json web service to a large full-stack web application!
Drop-In Admin
Padrino ships with an Admin Interface that includes the following features:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| ORM/ODM | Adapters for datamapper, activerecord, sequel, mongomapper, mongoid |
| Authentication | Account authentication support and permission management |
| Template | View support for Erb and Haml rendering engines |
| Scaffold | Create a model “admin interface” by invoking a command |
| i18n | Translated into 10 languages including English, Spanish, and Italian |
$ padrino-gen project cool --orm activerecord
$ cd cool
$ padrino-gen admin
$ padrino-gen admin page post
Comprehensive
Building on our experience in developing web applications, we designed a framework that meets all the requirements for creating a top notch web application in a clean, concise and simple environment, with minimal deadline delays.
We provide you with the following out of the box:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Agnostic | Full support for many popular testing, templating, mocking, and database libraries. |
| Generators | Create Padrino applications, models, controllers, admin. |
| Mountable | Unlike other ruby frameworks, principally designed for mounting multiple apps. |
| Routing | Full url named routes, named params, respond_to support, before/after filter support. |
| Helpers | Different helpers for generating tags, forms, links, images, and more. |
| Mailer | Fast and simple support for delivering emails. |
| Caching | Simple route and fragment caching to easily speed up your web requests. |
| Admin | Built-in admin interface (akin to Django) with authentication. |
| Logging | Provides a unified logger that can interact with your ORM or any library of your choice. |
| Reloading | Automatically reloads server code during development. |
| Localization | Full support for I18n localization. |
Agnostic
Padrino is ORM/ODM, JavaScript, testing, rendering, and mocking agnostic supporting the use of any number of available libraries.
The available components and their defaults are listed below:
| Component | Default | Options |
|---|---|---|
| ORM/ODM | none | activerecord, datamapper, mongomapper, mongoid, sequel, couchrest |
| JavaScript | none | prototype, rightjs, jquery, mootools, extcore |
| Renderer | none | Erb, Haml, Slim |
| Test | none | Bacon, Shoulda, Cucumber, Riot, RSpec |
| Stylesheet | none | Less, Sass, SCSS, Compass |
| Mock | none | rr, Mocha |
Just create the project with the usual generator command and pass in your preferred components!
$ padrino g project cool --orm datamapper
$ padrino g project cool --renderer haml --stylesheet sass
$ padrino g project cool --script mootools
$ padrino g project cool --orm mongoid --script mootools
$ padrino g project -h ## shows available options
Sinatra Core
Many people love the simplicity and expressiveness of Sinatra but quickly find themselves missing a great deal of functionality provided by other web frameworks such as Rails when building non-trivial applications.
Sinatra acts as a thin layer on top of Rack itself and the "micro"-framework is kept light introducing complexities only when required by the particular application.
Our goal with Padrino is to stay true to the core principles of Sinatra including a focus on simplicity and modularity.
Starting from this assumption, we have developed a different approach to a web development framework. We expand on Sinatra through the addition of standard libraries including helpers, components, and other functionality that are needed in a framework suitable for arbitrarily complex web applications.