Scalatra: A Sinatra-like Web Framework for Scala

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28 points·icey··9 comments

They really need to change the name. Something that rips off Sinatra less and promotes the fact that its a micro-framework. Besides that I would love to take it for a test drive.

It's kind of funny because originally it was called step and then they renamed it a few months ago. I liked step better.

We renamed after we discovered another framework named Step. The new name has the advantage of being easier to search for, but I do sincerely apologize for the name of the scalatra-scalate module. Glad you enjoy the framework!

Anyone using this? It'd be pretty awesome to get a first-hand account of it.

I have used it. I like it quite a bit. It's very simple and integrates nicely with Scalate, a Scala templating library.

Scalatra + Scalate + development using simple-build-tool (using ~ prepare-webapp) is a pretty killer combination, in my opinion. The feedback cycle is every bit as fast as rails.

The linked in engineering team just deployed scalatra as part of their big new faceting search engine.

http://sna-projects.com/blog/2010/10/linkedin-signal-a-look-...

i am somewht responsible for the original idea, though others have done, well, all the work :)

Scalatra has a few rough edges but since it takes about 2 minutes to have somehing running it is worth trying it out yourself :)

Although I love Scala, I preferr Groovy/Grails over Scala/Lift for my web development needs. I would love to give Scalatra a try too.

Is anyone aware of any web frameworks that are more structured than the 1,001 Sinatra clones but aren't Django/Rails or something resembling a rotting corpse with a bad idea for an ODB persistence layer?

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