I wonder if the author of the article above has looked into Sinatra? It seems to be the solution he is looking for, in a sense. I have used Padrino (http://www

I wonder if the author of the article above has looked into Sinatra? It seems to be the solution he is looking for, in a sense. I have used Padrino (http://www.padrinorb.com http://www.padrinorb.com) a lot recently, which is really a framework on top of Sinatra that make things like testing, ORMs and renderers easier to integrate into a raw Sinatra base. I especially love that I can use 95% of gems written for Rails in it - about the only ones I can't use are the ActiveRecord specific ones. (Note: I use DataMapper in most of my projects, but looking at Sequel as the ORM for my current app).