NWRUG next week — Rails Replacement Service
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North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)
Jul 9, 2026, 6:39:40 AM (5 days ago) Jul 9
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Hi folks,
Our next NWRUG is in next week on 16 July at Colony, One Silk Street, Daz is back, and he wants to tell us of some adventures outside the world of Rails.
At the last meetup, Dan mentioned wanting to use Sinatra for personal projects following the controversy around DHH—but finding it too limited for building substantial applications.
That conversation inspired me to build my own lightweight, domain-oriented Ruby web framework with the help of AI. It’s intended to fill the space between a micro-framework and Rails and combines Sinatra-style routing with explicit actions, Sequel persistence, HTML-first development and generators that produce understandable Ruby code based around modules rather than inheritance. It offers many of the practical features expected from a full-stack framework while depending on just six gems.
In this interactive session, we’ll build an application with the framework, examine the design decisions behind it, and discuss what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see in a modern Rails replacement.
We’ll be at the venue for pizza from 6:30pm with the workshop starting at 7pm. Afterwards we’ll retire to The Crown & Kettle for a drink. The venue, pizza, and drinks are kindly provided by our sponsors Fatsoma and thoughtbot.
Register here if you would like to attend. Full details on this (and all our events) over on our website.
See you soon!
Our next NWRUG is in next week on 16 July at Colony, One Silk Street, Daz is back, and he wants to tell us of some adventures outside the world of Rails.
At the last meetup, Dan mentioned wanting to use Sinatra for personal projects following the controversy around DHH—but finding it too limited for building substantial applications.
That conversation inspired me to build my own lightweight, domain-oriented Ruby web framework with the help of AI. It’s intended to fill the space between a micro-framework and Rails and combines Sinatra-style routing with explicit actions, Sequel persistence, HTML-first development and generators that produce understandable Ruby code based around modules rather than inheritance. It offers many of the practical features expected from a full-stack framework while depending on just six gems.
In this interactive session, we’ll build an application with the framework, examine the design decisions behind it, and discuss what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see in a modern Rails replacement.
We’ll be at the venue for pizza from 6:30pm with the workshop starting at 7pm. Afterwards we’ll retire to The Crown & Kettle for a drink. The venue, pizza, and drinks are kindly provided by our sponsors Fatsoma and thoughtbot.
Register here if you would like to attend. Full details on this (and all our events) over on our website.
See you soon!
Rob Whittaker
Jul 13, 2026, 5:00:58 AM (yesterday) Jul 13
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Hi folks, we’re just a few days away until our next event.
There will also be pizza and the first round of after-talk drinks provided by thoughtbot, and the usual Ruby-related chat.
Register here if you plan on attending.
Register here if you plan on attending.
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