jesseposner / Rails-Lite

Rails Lite is a web application framework inspired by Ruby on Rails.

Rails Lite

Rails Lite is a web application framework inspired by Ruby on Rails.

Instructions

Define the controller's actions in config.ru. Start the server by running rackup config.ru. This framework is ready to be deployed to Heroku without any additional configuration.

The http request can be accessed via the @req instance variable and the response can be accessed via the @res instance variable. The parameters can be accessed via the @params instance variable. The path can be accessed by calling @req.path.

The render_content method accepts two arguments: (1) the content and (2) the content type. The render method takes a single argument, the name of an erb file in the view directory. The redirect_to method also takes a single argument, a path.

This framework can serve .css, .jpg, .png, .svg, .js, .woff, and .woff2 static assets from the css, fonts, images, and js directories in the public directory. They can be accessed from the views using the ../../public/ path. For example: ../../public/css/main.css.

Here's a simple example controller:

class Controller < ControllerBase
  @cats = [
    { id: 1, name: "Curie" },
    { id: 2, name: "Markov" }
  ]

  def go
    if @req.path == "/cats"
      render_content(@cats.to_json, "application/json")
    elsif @req.path == "/"
      render :index
    else
      redirect_to("/cats")
    end
  end
end