Sinatra is a Ruby web framework that lets you build apps with less code. It has an expressive syntax and is less complex than other frameworks like Rails. In this article, we’ll use Sinatra to make a URL shortening app and learn how to use this powerful tool.

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Building a Sinatra app in Ruby - Honeybadger Developer Blog Sinatra is a lightweight web application framework written in Ruby. The framework focuses on being minimalistic, allowing developers to quickly create web applications without having to deal with a lot of the boilerplate code. We'll use Sinatra to build a simple URL-shortening app.

Building a Sinatra app in Ruby

Installing Sinatra and initializing the project

Adding a Gemfile , Rack configuration and Rakefile

Adding a database connection and Active Record model

Defining the ShortLink model and Active Record migration