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Invisible, a new web framework

By Heri Jul 23rd 2008 in Development, Open Source


Mini … minimalism

Marc-André Cournoyer has just published Invisible (link to the GitHub repository), a ruby web framework that aims to be as minimalist and compact as possible, with the core code taking 2k lines.

Yes, you’ve read it well, it’s a web framework and it’s under 2000 lines of code. In comparison, in other web frameworks like Ruby On Rails, there are base files that are well beyond 2000 lines (here or here for instance)

invisible ruby web framework

Thanks to its simplicity, I imagine the web framework could be used to get a simple website in a minimal amount of time, such as a website that has only a dozen or so (static) pages. It might not be production ready though for web developers, since it has minimal no support for stylesheets, javascripts, or any other fancy web2.0 effects.

In related news, the prolific Marc-André Cournoyer also released a while ago Thin Turbo, aiming to speed up Thin.

There are no clues if the author aims to release one day a web server or a framework coded in one line, or in assembly

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