I think you described Padrino (http://www.padrinorb.com/ http://www.padrinorb.com/). Sinatra is good for APIs but it's easy to find yourself reinventing Rails/

I think you described Padrino (http://www.padrinorb.com/ http://www.padrinorb.com/). Sinatra is good for APIs but it's easy to find yourself reinventing Rails/Padrino when you have a view layer.