Transitioning from Sinatra to Rails

Adrienne Domingus

Feb 19, 2016·3 min read

We made our first foray into Rails this week. Because we wrote our Sinatra apps in the MVC model, the transition was jarring mostly in the simplicity of it — how many things Rails does for me, that I had to create for myself in Sinatra. These are just a few of the most notable differences.

Routes, Controllers, and Views

This in Rails:

Rails.application.routes.draw do 
  resources :tasks 
end

Replaces this, in Sinatra:

class TaskManagerApp <…