I'm not sure what you're saying here. I like Sinatra for teaching the underlying http protocol. Unlike Rails, it doesn't hide things from you, but just tries

I'm not sure what you're saying here. I like Sinatra for teaching the underlying http protocol. Unlike Rails, it doesn't hide things from you, but just tries to make it cleaner and easier to write an app. I maintain that Sinatra:Rails::PHP:J2EE. They all have uses, but aim at different ends of the scale.