Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra Microframework

[cootcraig]

Sinatra and Padrino have caught my interest

http://www.padrinorb.com/

Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra
Microframework. Sinatra is a DSL for creating simple web applications
in Ruby with speed and minimal effort. This framework makes it as fun
and easy as possible to code increasingly advanced web applications by
expanding upon Sinatra while maintaining the spirit that made it
great.

Why

Many developers fall in love with the simplicity and expressiveness of
Sinatra but quickly come to miss a great deal of functionality
provided by other web frameworks such as Rails when building non-
trivial applications.

Our team has come to love the philosophy of Sinatra which acts as a
thin layer on top of rack allowing middleware to do most of the work
and enabling additional complexity only when required.

The goal for this framework is to match the essence of Sinatra and
make it suitable for increasingly complex applications that require
the use of forms, mail delivery, localization, helpers, caching, etc…

[ybakos]

Nice, thanks for sharing that.