Rambo - The alternative web framework for Ruby

Installation

To install the gem:

sudo gem install rambo

Hello World Example

Smallest example, create a file called HomeController.rb with:

class HomeController < Rambo::Controller
  def index
    "hello world"
  end
end

Now create a config.ru file to tell rack how to run the application eg:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'rambo'

app = Rambo::Server.new

run app

Now you can run it with your favourite rack-based server, eg:

thin start -R config.ru

Creating a new application

Use the rambo executable to create a new skeleton application:

rambo blog

This should generate the minimal skeleton like this:

Generating application blog ...
creating blog/
creating blog/controller/BlogController.rb
creating blog/rambo.yml
creating blog/config.ru

Run the example using:

rackup

Head over to:

http://localhost:9292/

Features

• No Ruby object base class modifications
• Lightweight and fast
• Rack-based so works with most web servers (thin, mongrel, passenger)
• Web applications can be deployed to Heroku
• fast static file serving
• Template agnostic
• Database agnostic
• Library only 60k