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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition
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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition

by Jose Valim
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 31m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Rails and Sinatra

With translations properly stored, we can now write our Translator app using Sinatra. Sinatra is a domain-specific language (DSL) for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. The “Hello world” is just a few lines of code:

 
# myapp.rb
 
require ​'sinatra'
 
get ​'/'​ ​do
 
'Hello world!'
 
end

We won’t access the Sinatra application directly, but we’ll integrate it with our Rails app. This allows us to reuse all the structure we already have in the Rails ecosystem, such as tests, sessions, authentication, and so on. Before we develop our Sinatra application, let’s write an integration test once again using Capybara to make our tests more robust and readable. First, let’s define ActiveSupport::IntegrationCase ...

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