[bigbento]

One of the things I love about Sinatra is that pretty much everything you need to know is in the README. Otherwise, understanding how Rack/your web server/your gems work is useful. From another angle, Paul Dix's Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails has a lot of examples of using Sinatra in a variety of applications.

[joshkaufman]

I'm new to Ruby as well (getting back into programming). I'll definitely pick up Dix's book - thanks for the recommendation!