Dino

Dino is a framework for HTTP services built on top of Sinatra. It provides a number of common behaviors for encoding and decoding JSON request and response entities, building responses based on HTTP method, and returning appropriate responses for exceptions thrown by the service.

Dino integrates with Mongoid to load that framework's environment at startup and handle its specific exceptions as well.

As Sinatra is named for a member for the Chairman of the Board, so is Dino named after the King of Cool.

Usage

require 'dino/base'
require 'dino/mongoid'

class SongService < Dino::Base
  set :root, File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..')

  # requires settings.root to be set
  include Dino::MongoidApp

  # returns 200 with JSON-encoded array of songs
  get '/songs' do
    do_get do
      Song.all
    end
  end

  # returns 204, or 404 if the song doesn't exist
  delete '/songs/:id' do
    do_delete do
      song = Song.find(params[:id])
      raise Dino::NotFound unless song
      song.destroy
    end
  end
end

To do

• Gracefully handle database unavailability
• Caching
• POST and PUT respond with 204 and Content-Location
• Acceptable request media type validation

Contributors

Since the git history was compacted, the awesome people responsible for this codebase are listed below:

• Brian Moseley
• Cutter Brown
• David LaMacchia
• Ken Chong
• Rob Zuber
• Travis Vachon
• Zhihao Jia