Padrino is a

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, written in

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and based on Sinatra. It is an alternative to other Ruby web frameworks such as

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and

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. It is dependent on the

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web server interface. Padrino was created and open-sourced in 2010. The framework was created by Nathan Esquenazi, Davide D'Agostino and Arthur Chiu based on the prio
sinatra_more
gem. The framework was created in order to extend Sinatra to more easily support rich web applications.

Features

This is a list of major functionality Padrino provides on top of Sinatra: * Agnostic: Full support for many popular testing, templating, mocking, and database libraries. * Generators: Create Padrino applications, models, controllers i.e.: padrino g project. * 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. * Tag Helpers: View helpers such as: tag, content_tag, input_tag. * Asset Helpers: View helpers such as: link_to, image_tag, javascript_include_tag. * Form Helpers: Builder support such as: form_tag, form_for, field_set_tag, text_field. * Text Helpers: Useful formatting like: relative_time_ago, js_escape_html, sanitize_html. * Mailer: Fast and simple delivery support for sending emails (akin to ActionMailer). * Admin: Built-in Admin interface (like Django). * Logging: Provide a unified logger that can interact with your ORM or any library. * Reloading: Automatically reloads server code during development. * Localization: Full support of I18n Note that as a user of Padrino, each of the major components can be pulled in separately to an existing Sinatra application or they can be used together for a comprehensive upgrade to Sinatra (a full-stack Padrino application).

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Padrino Core Team
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