Not necessarily. Some authors think that the best thing they can provide is a small framework that does the most basic stuff and then you plug-in the rest of th

Not necessarily. Some authors think that the best thing they can provide is a small framework that does the most basic stuff and then you plug-in the rest of the components you need. An example of this is Sinatra where you get a router, some helpers and not much more. You choose your ORM, testing library, etc. Others (like Rails) choose to include the 8 AA batteries. In general, this is aligned with the author way of thinking and it also applies to stuff like languages (think C vs. Java) or even window/desktop environments (Fluxbox vs. Gnome).