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Puresong - A lightweight application using Pure CSS and Sinatra

A lightweight Sinatra application that uses the Pure CSS modules Pure.css to provide responsive screen handling.

Audience

This article is intended for people familiar with Sinatra and SQLite who want to use Pure CSS to build responsive applications.

The sample application builds a new interface around a sample application that is described in Jump Start Sinatra by Darren Jones Sitepoint website.

Requirements

• ruby >= 1.9 (application was built and tested with Ruby 1.9.3).

Installation

Download the application to your local desktop.

Install the required gems (see the Gemfile),

Usage

The application run in development mode with 'ruby app.rb' command.

The application can also be tested as a rack application with the 'rackup' command.

What is Purelite?

The Purelite mini-stack includes the following:

• One page application built with Sinatra and ERB
• Sqlite3 with Sequel
• Pure.css javascripts
• Capture of visitor information and emailing with Gmail or Mandrill

Features

The features shown in the application include:

• Responsive screen using Pure.css capabilities
• Pure.css functions include: top and side menus, grid structures, headers and footers
• A webpage that demonstrates a small SQLite application used to demonstrate menu and button behaviour
• A webpage that demonstrates a screen to capture contact information from a visitor. This information is send to the website administrator using the Mandrill email application.
• This project is designed to show the capabilities of Pure.css interacting with a small Sinatra SQLite application. It is not intended for production use.

License

This code is dedicated to the public domain to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, pursuant to CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Please reference the copyright restrictions that may apply to the sample Sinatra SQLite application as published in 'Jump Start Sinatra'.