Recommended view framework for ruby

Question

Anyone have a framework/system to recommend to "show" (views) of ruby objects?

• ruby objects will be deeply nested

• a subset of the objects will be persisted (say 20%).

• rails -- don't think so, [everything] (or say 80/20) seems to be "on" a record. Looking for persistence not to dominate the design.

• Ramaze -- quick look -- again seemed to be all about objects living on records

• Webby -- I think (maybe?) it has zero persistence/database (that wouldn't work of course)

Basically, framework to popup views on ruby, and simple api for database (when needed) thank you....

Answer 1

From the brief description and the last comment you added, it seems like Sinatra would be the perfect fit for you:

http://www.sinatrarb.com/

If then one day you need a bit more, you can use Padrino, which builds on Sinatra and let's you pick and choose the other parts you neeed (ORM, test framework etc):

http://www.padrinorb.com/