While active, _why was a vocal evangelist of that vision.

Camping, for example, is an MVC framework written in less than 4K of Ruby code. It was at its time the go to microframework in the Ruby world. Then _why disappeared, and the releases staled for a while, and Sinatra took the spot.

Here's the initial camping announcement, with the full source code included. The updates were added incrementally, it was hillarious to see them roll out... http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/bits/campingAMicrofr...

The current version has been brought down to less than 3K By judofyr: https://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping.r...