Sinatra, Passenger, HTTParty: Small, Fast, Now
Last week at work I gave a little lunchtime presentation on Sinatra (the coolest microwebframework on the block) to some co-workers. It went over well.
Over the last couple of weekends, I played around with Passenger (the artist formerly known as mod_rails) and set up a whole bunch of little sites. It went over well.
Then today I read about HTTParty (like a DSL for creating REST clients) and that went over well, too.
We can all be making tiny, simple REST applications (with Sinatra), putting them on the internet with, like, no configuration and in no time (with Passenger), and then consuming them after doing next to no work (with HTTParty).
The barriers to putting up and pulling down easy-to-use resources is practically non-existent. I’d like to find out what happens when we start taking advantage of that. Maybe it won’t change the world, but I bet it’ll be like the day you figured out how to effectively use pipes on the command line: totally awesome for you.