Rapid Prototyping with MongoDB and Sinatra

1. Rapid Prototyping
Sinatra + MongoDB + ??? == Profit!
Will Farrington
Mike Skalnik

2. Sinatra
• Blake Mizerany (http://github.com/bmizerany)
• Micro-framework
• Bring your own ORM
• Sinatra: ~1,500 lines vs. Rails: ~100,000 lines
• Simple & Speedy

3. Example
require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
get '/:name' do
"Hello, #{params[:name]}!"
end

4. +

5. MongoDB
• Document Driven
• Key-Value
• JSON data types
• Asynchronous Writes
• Embedded Documents

6. MongoMapper
• John Nunemaker (github.com/jnunemaker)
• Like ActiveRecord
• But Not

7. +

8. ???
• Find Itch
• Scratch It
• Keep Scratching It

9. ==

10. Profit!

11. Mango
• Decided to play with MongoDB & Sinatra
• Wrote a blog in ~10 minutes
• 0 knowledge of MongoMapper before hand
• http://github.com/skalnik/mango

12. Us
will@railsmachine.com
github.com/wfarr
twitter.com/wfarr
mike@railsmachine.com
github.com/skalnik
twitter.com/skalnik

13. Credits
• github.com/sinatra/sinatra
• mongodb.org
• github.com/jnunemaker/mongomapper