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padrino
padrino-framework
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padrino / padrino-framework

padrino-framework

Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.

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6Mentions
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3.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-04-02 03:01:23 UTC to 2013-03-22 17:54:05 UTC.

012342010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2013

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

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Whilst I think that the Padrino framework is an excellent effort, I would like to remind everyone (chiefly the project organisers) that as things stand, the framework has no meaningful notion of security for the admin interface. I flagged this up about two years ago, now, but stopped using the framework shortly thereafter and never pushed any fixes of my own. The complete lack of meaningful authentication appears to still be there all this time later. For reference, see: https://github.com/padrino/padrino-framework/issues/384 and http://tkcs.in/Nlrc Though I would hope that Padrino admin isn't in fact being used in production by anybody who hasn't read the source, a quick search at the time showed otherwise.
In Padrino Framework 0.11 is here
Padrino developer here. I also like monkrb but if you check out the Padrino guides (http://www.padrinorb.com/guides) you will see that Padrino is quite a bit more full-featured but also modular. You can enable / disable various features of Padrino and even include certain pieces in existing Sinatra apps. Our team has used Rails and Sinatra both extensively for contract work and I would argue if you give Padrino + Sinatra a try that you will find it does not defeat the mentality of Sinatra. Instead Padrino simply complements the existing feature set with optional enhancements you might frequently need such as form helpers, tag helpers, localization, mailers and more. I agree that community support for Sinatra and Padrino are considerably lacking in comparison to Rails. I don't think this is something that cannot be fixed however. Sinatra h
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as only recently hit 1.0 stable which means that the community has just begun to grow. I can say our team at least is committed to helping anyone with problems associated with Sinatra/Padrino. Feel free to post any issues here: http://github.com/padrino/padrino-framework/issues if you find any specific problems. Thanks guys!
In Padrino Ruby Web Framework (sits on top of Sinatra)

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