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Two Web Application Approaches: Rails and Sinatra

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In this chapter, we’re going look at web application (or web app, for short) frameworks—libraries of code that provide a easily reusable structure and design patterns for developing web applications. If you want to develop something useful for the Web, you’ll probably find a web application framework very useful, and Ruby has a wonderful selection of them, of which we’ll look at two: Rails and Sinatra.

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Cooper, P. (2016). Two Web Application Approaches: Rails and Sinatra. In: Beginning Ruby. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1278-3_13

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