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24 alternatives to Sinatra
Open source library for creating web applications in Ruby
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sinatra launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Awesome Ruby▲146The essential Ruby to build modern Apps and Web Apps
2015 · awesome-ruby.com · its alternatives →
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Turns Ruby into a versatile command line utility. Contribute to thisredone/rb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn everything about building web APIs with Ruby.
2016 · master-ruby-web-apis.samurails.com · its alternatives →
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Cinder▲122Free and open source library for creative coding in C++
2017 · libcinder.org · its alternatives →
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Terminal user interfaces in Ruby. RatatuiRuby wraps Rust
Jan 2026 · ratatui-ruby.dev · its alternatives →
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For a year or two I've been building a UI library with the aim of making desktop applications fun and easy to write. It is currently written in C/Ruby and uses a custom tree sitter grammar to describe templates. Features include: composable UI components, template directives, event and prop handling, slots, styles and automation capabilities baked in. One of the goals of the project is privileging easy to write custom components via a drawing API over providing a fixed set of components. At the time of this writing it should install on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but sometimes it is hard…
2025 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
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Mobile and browser games bring together more than 380 million people around the world. The company’s portfolio includes over 20 games, from hardcore collectible RPGs to casual puzzle games. Our games are available on all major social networks, in the browser version, as well as on iOS, Android
2013 · opensourcerails.com · its alternatives →
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Ruby gem for working with io_uring. Contribute to digital-fabric/iou development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Project Management Inside GitHub – Free for open-source + …
2015 · its alternatives →
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The origins of the Ruby programming language
2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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- 15BR
2015 · best-ruby.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · rubypair.com · its alternatives →
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A simple Sinatra app generator, heavily based on snfn. - c7/hazel
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Honeybadger▲76Exception, uptime, and performance monitoring for Ruby.
2014 · honeybadger.io · its alternatives →
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Hello! I just made my first web app with Sinatra. It is a REST API that helps people add two-step verification to their websites or apps. I am a complete noob in web development so please criticize me and let me know how shitty this whole thing is. :) http://two-step.herokuapp.com/
2014 · its alternatives →
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A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An awesome wit.ai client for Ruby. With Bots! Contribute to benaubin/wit_bot development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I started this project a couple of weeks ago because I was stuck on my side project and needed some motivation. For a very long time I wanted to get back to do something useful in lisp/scheme, did a quick research and settled on CHICKEN mostly because it's relatively well maintained, fast enough, it's extremely easy to build/install and very easy to write interop to pretty much any library. Most of the projects that I've written on the side have been using some combination of Sinatra + Sequel + Postgres/Redis/Something else + HTMX. I love the simplicity of Sinatra's API…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · devblog.official.fm · its alternatives →
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