Padrino: a Ruby framework built upon Sinatra

Padrino extends Sinatra with a wealth of extra features: namespaced route aliases, nested routes, controllers, i18n / internationalization, mailer system, django-esque admin interface and unified logging.

Most of these features can be added to Sinatra already, either manually or by selecting from a wide assortment of independent plugins. Padrino, on the other hand, provides a standard suite of functionality that, hopefully, will continue to be improved as a whole over time. It feels a lot like Ramaze (http://ramaze.net/) but with the similar functionality wrapped around Sinatra instead.

I am hard pressed to see the benefit of this unless you really need something like form helpers but don't want to use something like rails 3. There are a dozen and one templating systems out there already. The logging interface looks cool though. At least Padrino is modular so we can cherry pick what we need.

Last time I checked, Padrino didn't yet support page/action/fragment caching - a pretty serious limitation IMHO.

Anyone know if that's been fixed?

A great thing is that padrino seems quite fast more than ramaze and more than rails. Obviously according to this: http://www.padrinorb.com/blog/padrino-0-9-10-released-built-...

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