[pandatigox]

Sinatra, in my opinion, gets pretty hacked together after the initial `def get '/'; puts "Hello World"; end`

Personally, I think Camping is the perfect fit for Ruby frameworks

[nitrogen]

It is very possible to organize a Sinatra project elegantly. It generally involves a combination of require_relative and Dir.glob().

[jrochkind1]

That's interesting; I tend to agree with the crowd that wishes Rails didn't do any kind of auto-loading.

But are you suggesting that you need to add a kind of basic auto-loading to Sinatra to keep things sane?

[vidarh]

Rails autoloading "just happens". If you're doing explicitly require/require_relative, even on the results of Dir.glob(), the application explicitly specifies what will be loaded, and when. For my part I find that much cleaner.

[auxbuss]

Another way is to add a file, say init.rb, to a directory and require_relative that. It achieves the same thing, of course.

[Argorak]

Only if you treat it as a framework. Sinatra is a great library.