Basic Sinatra App with Sprockets, Warden, ActiveRecord and PostgresQL

This repository aims to be a boilerplate for a modular 2017 Sinatra (v2) app.

demo on heroku (admin area is locked up 😉)

please check out the credits section! Without the community, this never would have been possible. Thank you.

Why?
What is in?
Get started
Credits

Feel free to contribute, add more features, strip features or simply improve existing code - pull requests welcome 😄

Why not Rails?

Sinatra is a ruby/rack framework, that can be used as an alternative where Rails would simply be an overkill.

I started working my way through the sinatra docs, aiming for a setup that can easily be modeled to a basic use case.

What is in?

I want this Sinatra boilerplate app to:

work with Bundler
use ORM is ActiveRecord
have an MVC-like structure
support Sass/Scss and CoffeeScript
party with jQuery and Turbolinks! Yes, Turbolinks.
roll an Authentication System
use PostgresQL as Database
run on heroku (don't forget: $ heroku config:add APP_ENV=production)

Get started

You need Ruby (>= 2.4 and < 2.5) and Bundler.

If you do not have a local PostgresQL DB running, heroku can handle the code as is - do not forget to add Heroku PostgresQL addon in your dashboard.

$ git clone
$ bundle install
edit config/database.yml
$ rake db:setup
$ thin start or rerun rackup (rerun gem - not included by default!)
edit titles in views/layout.haml and views/nav.haml
check/set timezone config/timezone.rb

now what?

read the credits
read the code
run the code, see what it does
delete what you don't need and built from there, should a barebone branch be offered? What do you think? 😁

Most code is commented, so you'll learn what it does.

What needs to be done

enable flash messages, especially for validation feedback

Contribute

Send in pull requests, improve this project with features or simply by adding/improving comments 😁
Be nice, make public forks
What did you use this app for? Please, let me know! Share your projects.