This paper is kind of academic, but its a good look at the 3 tradeoffs encountered when you try to build a

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> mkdir activerecord-sinatra && cd activerecord-sinatra > touch app.rb Install two gems for ActiveRecord and the JSON gem for a real API-looking

Sinatra is a DSL (Domain Specific Language), which makes it conceptually very similar to a framework, but to be more concise, as