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Learning Sinatra

By : Sudeep Agarwal, Manoj Sehrawat
Book Image

Learning Sinatra

By: Sudeep Agarwal, Manoj Sehrawat

Overview of this book

<p>Sinatra is a Ruby framework that is widely used in the Industry. You can use it to make a single-page web app or a large-scale one. With the increased online footprint, you can create and deploy your own application.</p> <p>Whether you are brand-new to online learning or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create, customize, and deploy a Sinatra application. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover how to install Ruby and Sinatra, construct the back-end, design and customize the front-end layout, and utilize the innovative and user-friendly features of ORMs. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master Sinatra's features to create your own application.</p> <p>With ample screenshots and code that offers a play-by-play account of how to build an application, Learning Sinatra will ensure your success with this cutting-edge framework.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Sinatra
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Modeling the Backend

In the previous chapter, we discussed the structure of the ToDo application that we will architect. We discussed the structure of the tables in the backend, responsibilities of each module, and views that we will design.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • What Object-relational mapping is

  • When and why should ORM be used

  • How to use ORM for our application