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# Sinatra Reviews
**Vendor:** Open Source Initiative (OSI)  
**Category:** [Other Web Frameworks Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-web-frameworks)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 21
## About Sinatra
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort:




## Sinatra Reviews
  ### 1. A Great lightweight MVC framework for Ruby projects

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2019

**What do you like best about Sinatra?**

Sinatra is a smaller Ruby Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for Ruby projects.  I have used Sinatra for smaller web based projects that I need to bootstrap quickly to get an iearly application running.  Sinatra is very easy to get going and make things work and it has a few nice built in tools like a Router to help the developer get the project up and running quicker.

**What do you dislike about Sinatra?**

I guess the only thing I dislike about Sinatra is that in a way it is a limited toolset framework, which I believe is by design though.  If I need more of a toolset, I will use Ruby on Rails but RoR called be too heavy for smaller projects, overkill.  Sinatra to Rails is like Lumen to Laravel in PHP.

**Recommendations to others considering Sinatra:**

Try it out, you will see quickly how easy it is to get a simple project going.

**What problems is Sinatra solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I mainly use Sinatra with embedded projects mostly on Raspberry Pi devices.  For example, one Sinatra app I have built is a customer welcome screen that is a simple app that checks a report online every day and adds the persons name to the TV in our office if they have an appointment on the day.  If not, it defaults to a standard message.  



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