Sinatra was designed and developed by Blake Mizerany in California. ### Current Team * **Konstantin Haase** (maintainer) * **Zachary Scott** * **Katrina Owen** * **Ashley Williams** ### Alumni * **Blake Mizerany** (creator) * **Ryan Tomayko** * **Simon Rozet** ### Thanks Sinatra would not have been possible without strong company backing. In the past, financial and emotional support have been provided mainly by [Heroku](http://heroku.com), [GitHub](https://github.com) and [Engine Yard](http://www.engineyard.com/), and is now taken care of by [Travis CI](http://travis-ci.com/). Special thanks to the following extraordinary individuals, without whom Sinatra would not be possible: * [Ryan Tomayko](http://tomayko.com/) (rtomayko) for constantly fixing whitespace errors __60d5006__ * [Ezra Zygmuntowicz](http://brainspl.at/) (ezmobius) for initial help and letting Blake steal some of merbs internal code. * [Chris Schneider](http://gittr.com) (cschneid) for The Book, the blog, [irclogger.com](http://irclogger.com/sinatra/), and a bunch of useful patches. * [Markus Prinz](http://nuclearsquid.com/) (cypher) for patches over the years, caring about the README, and hanging in there when times were rough. * [Erik Kastner](http://metaatem.net/) (kastner) for fixing `MIME_TYPES` under Rack 0.5. * [Ben Bleything](http://blog.bleything.net/) (bleything) for caring about HTTP status codes and doc fixes. * [Igal Koshevoy](http://twitter.com/igalko) (igal) for root path detection under Thin/Passenger. * [Jon Crosby](http://joncrosby.me/) (jcrosby) for coffee breaks, doc fixes, and just because, man. * [Karel Minarik](https://github.com/karmi) (karmi) for screaming until the website came back up. * [Jeremy Evans](http://code.jeremyevans.net/) (jeremyevans) for unbreaking optional path params (twice!) * [The GitHub guys](https://github.com/) for stealing Blake's table. * [Nickolas Means](http://nmeans.org/) (nmeans) for Sass template support. * [Victor Hugo Borja](https://github.com/vic) (vic) for splat'n routes specs and doco. * [Avdi Grimm](http://avdi.org/) (avdi) for basic RSpec support. * [Jack Danger Canty](http://jåck.com/) for a more accurate root directory and for making me watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaHLHgskkw) just now. * Mathew Walker for making escaped paths work with static files. * Millions of Us for having the problem that led to Sinatra's conception. * [Songbird](http://getsongbird.com/) for the problems that helped Sinatra's future become realized. * [Rick Olson](http://techno-weenie.net/) (technoweenie) for the killer plug at RailsConf '08. * Steven Garcia for the amazing custom artwork you see on 404's and 500's * [Pat Nakajima](http://patnakajima.com/) (nakajima) for fixing non-nested params in nested params Hash's. * Gabriel Andretta for having people wonder whether our documentation is actually in English or in Spanish. * Vasily Polovnyov, Nickolay Schwarz, Luciano Sousa, Wu Jiang, Mickael Riga, Bernhard Essl, Janos Hardi, Kouhei Yanagita and "burningTyger" for willingly translating whatever ends up in the README. * [Wordy](https://wordy.com/) for proofreading our README. **73e137d** * cactus for digging through code and specs, multiple times. * Nicolás Sanguinetti (foca) for strong demand of karma and shaping helpers/register. And last but not least: * [Frank Sinatra](http://www.sinatra.com/) (chairman of the board) for having so much class he deserves a web-framework named after him.