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awesome-rack

A curated list of awesome Ruby rack, middlewares, frameworks and web servers
https://github.com/coopermaa/awesome-rack

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Frameworks

  • `Introducing Rack`
  • Ruby MVC from scratch with Rack
  • ngx_mruby - enabled Nginx,
  • mod_mruby - enabled Apache and h2o.
  • The Guide to Cuba - following this small book to build a Twitter clone called Frogger (work in progress).
  • Frameworks inspired by Sinatra on Wikipedia - e.g.:
  • Hobbit - A minimalistic microframework built on top of Rack (thanks to Rack::Builder).
  • hobbit-contrib - Contributed Hobbit extensions. For examples:
  • mote
  • mruby-hibari - A Web application framework for Web servers that support mruby
  • ngx_mruby - enabled Nginx,
  • mod_mruby - enabled Apache and h2o.
  • Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.
  • Dolly - Minimal Ruby microframework inspired by Sinatra.
  • Nancy - Minimal Ruby microframework for web development inspired in Sinatra and Cuba (~150 LOC).
  • Rambutan - Ruby web microframework with Rails-ish controllers and routes.
  • NYNY - A (ridiculously) small and powerful web framework (~ 300 LOC). NYNY uses
  • Journey
  • Eldr - A lightweight, simple, modular and above all, clear framework without all the magic. (~500 LOC).
  • rack-server-pages - Rack middleware and application for serving dynamic pages in very
  • Serve - A small Rack-based web server that makes it easy to serve HTML, ERB, Haml, or a variety of
  • RESTRack - RESTRack is a Rack-based MVC framework that makes it extremely easy to
  • RESTRack-Client - A library for interacting with RESTRack based services,
  • RESTRack-Balancer - A library for interacting with RESTful web services
  • RESTRack-Splitter - A library for interacting with RESTful web services
  • jellyfish - Pico web framework for building API-centric web applications (~ 250 LOC).
  • junior - An MVC Web Framework.
  • u-web - A micro MVC framework based on Rack in a single file.
  • Kenji - A lightweight backend framework for Ruby.
  • cramp - A fully asynchronous realtime web application framework in Ruby. It is built on top of
  • Plezi - A framework for realtime, RESTful, websocket web apps. (M)VC desing, BYO models.
  • Brooklyn - Small web tool on top of Rack. No documentation.
  • Rango - An ultralightweight, ultracustomizable, ultracool web framework inspired by Django.
  • Pancake - Construct Rack stacks as mixins. Almost all key aspects of web frameworks are
  • Grape - An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
  • Gris - A framework for building hypermedia API services using Grape, Roar and ActiveRecord.
  • Napa - Simple framework for building Rack based APIs using Grape, Roar and ActiveRecord.
  • Crep - A lightweight API framework designed to help you write clean, fast web services in Ruby.
  • Camping - A web framework which consistently stays at less than 4kB of code.
  • Espresso - Scalable Web Framework aimed at Speed and Simplicity.
  • Halcyon - A JSON Web Application Framework for developing lightweight applications
  • Wee - A light-weight, very high-level and modern web-framework that makes Web engineering easy
  • Mack - A Ruby web application framework. It takes the best ideas from several frameworks,
  • Racket - A small MVC framework built on top of rack.
  • Merb - A web development framework for fast, simple, and powerful development.
  • Hanami - (formerly Lotus) A Ruby MVC web framework comprised of many micro-libraries.
  • awesome-hanami - A collection of awesome Hanami Gems and projects.
  • Ramaze - A simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.
  • ramaze-book - The official book for the Ramaze web framework.
  • Sin - A multi-app web-app DSL derived from Sinatra, riding on rack.
  • Gin - A small Ruby web framework, built on Rack, which borrows from Sinatra expressiveness,
  • Scorched - Light-weight, DRY as a desert, web framework for Ruby. Simliar to Sinatra.
  • Rack::App - Bare bone minimalistic (masochistic) pico framework for building rack apps.
  • Sinatra - Classy web-development dressed in a DSL for quickly creating web applications
  • sinatra-contrib - Collection of common Sinatra extensions.
  • sinatra-receipes - Community contributed recipes and techniques for the Sinatra Web Framework.
  • sinatra-book - A cookbook full of excellent tutorials and recipes for developing Sinatra web applications.
  • padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.
  • padrino-contrib - Contributed plugins and utilities for Padrino Framework.
  • padrino-recipes - A collection of padrino templates and plugins.
  • Rails - Ruby on Rails, is a MVC web application framework written in Ruby.
  • Volt - A reactive web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client (via Opal).
  • Rum - A gRand Unified Mapper for Rack by Christian Neukirchen. Rum apps use a small DSL
  • hat - Hobby Application Template. Combinded with i18n, rack-protection, sprockets, tilt,
  • Mustermann
  • RESTRack-Client - A library for interacting with RESTRack based services,
  • RESTRack-Balancer - A library for interacting with RESTful web services
  • Coset - A framework specifically for implementing RESTful Rack applications by Christian Neukirchen.
  • Espresso - Scalable Web Framework aimed at Speed and Simplicity.
  • Pakyow - An open-source framework for the modern web. Build web-based apps faster with
  • Praxis - A framework for both designing and implementing APIs.
  • Trailblazer - A high-level, modular architecture for Ruby

General

Helpers and Tools

  • Rackup howto
  • Lookout::Rack::Test - RSpec and Cucumber test helpers.
  • almost-rack - Rack in three lines of code.
  • rack-test-test - an extension to rack-test that when combined with Test::Unit simplifies the
  • test-unit-capybara - integration testing helper library for Rack applications, a Capybara
  • test-unit
  • Split - Rack based ab testing framework designed to work with Rails, Sinatra or any other rack based app.
  • Rack::Scaffold - Automatically generate RESTful CRUD services
  • rack-graph - Generate a tree displaying all your Rack middleware.
  • Apartment - Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications.

Inspiration

  • WSGI (Python) - The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) is a specification for simple
  • PEP 3333
  • JSGI (JavaScript) - JavaScript Gateway Interface, is an interface between web servers
  • PSGI (Perl) - Perl Web Server Gateway Interface is an interface between Web servers and
  • StackPHP (PHP) - a PHP interface for framework-agnostic code sharing
  • OWIN (.NET) - Open Web Interface for .NET, defines a standard interface between .NET web servers
  • Katana
  • Plug (Elixir) - Plug is A specification for composable modules
  • WSAPI (Lua) - WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web
  • OWIN (.NET) - Open Web Interface for .NET, defines a standard interface between .NET web servers
  • WSAPI (Lua) - WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web

Middlewares