Sinatra is as lightweight and simple a framework you can c= hoose for doing a web app. =A0You can create a complete app in a single fil= e with template included!

There is no such thing as Sina= tra being overkill for a project. IMHO, the only simpler alternative is usi= ng paper, scissors and glue :)

I love Sinatra and highly recommend it for anyone learn= ing web development. Give it a shot- it's a fantastic piece work.

Did you know that there are dozens, if not more, clones= of Sinatra across different languages?

And the monster framework for the Node.js, Express, is = Sinatra inspired?

And as Hassan mentioned, Tomcat = is a "servlet" container for Java servlets. Not really related, a= nd far, far more complicated than using Ruby and Sinatra. I almost had post= -traumatic stress syndrome flashbacks seeing that word- I haven't use T= omcat in over eight years.

Good luck!

Cheers,

N= ick

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Ruby Student <<= a href=3D"mailto:ruby.student@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">ruby.student@gma= il.com> wrote:

Well, I got some = good suggestions from everyone here. I thank you all for that!
Now= I just need to analyze each suggestion and pick he easiest for me. I am no= t by any mean a mature ruby programmer and I like to do things as easy and = simple as possible. If Sinatra is overkill for what I want, perhaps I shoul= d look into something different. I was wondering if TomCat might be what I = need. Anyway, the entire affair is kind of confusing to me as this is the f= irst time I deal with this type of thing.

As I said, I am very grateful to all of you for taking the time t= o answer my post.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:55 PM= , Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote:

You should be able to = do this without JavaScript by using streaming.

Sin= atra has a streaming API as of 1.3. Rails 4.0 is adding a "live" = mode for similar.

However you need to use a supporting web server and hook into th= e event loop (which Rack exposes).

https://gist.github.com/= rkh/1476463 offers an example, but note that the heroku app is broken (= look at the comments for a link to a patched version).

Nick

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Ruby Stu= dent <ruby.student@gmail.com> wrote:

H= ell Team,

I wrote a very simple dashboard using shoes w= hich basically displays statistics, every second, of certain type of messag= es arriving at a queue under MQ. But in order for anyon= e to use it they have to install Ruby, shoes and= its requirements. So I started experimenting with Sinatra to re-wri= te my simple application so anyone could point their browser and get= the dashboard displayed. I went over the first basic Sinatra tutori= al but everything appears to be static. Is there any example out there that= shows Sinatra dynamically refreshing the page continuously with new= information, in my case message queues information?

In other words, once the user successfully get the page disp= layed, from that point on I want the content to be refreshed dynamically wi= th the new information without user intervention.

Thank y= ou

-- Ruby Student

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Ruby Student