Roda: Simplicity, Reliability, Extensibility, Performance
summary
Roda is a Ruby web framework that routes via a routing tree of Ruby blocks (r.on, r.is, r.get) so code like path parsing, typecasting and DB lookup runs during routing instead of in separate controllers. Benchmarks (Tech and power, r10k) show Roda running roughly 13–675x faster than Sinatra and 40–75x faster than Rails depending on route count, using 15–65% less memory (10 routes) and ~55–60% less at 10,000 routes. It supports frozen applications, 100% test coverage, and 100+ plugins (render, assets, JSON, CSRF, HMAC sessions).
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to Roda
- 1:25Routing tree concept
- 5:03Roda performance
- 7:32Simplicity in routing
- 10:44Roda vs Sinatra/Rails
- 13:54Code sharing in Roda
- 15:42Roda upgrades
- 16:23Roda reliability
- 19:57Roda plugins
- 23:27Splitting routing trees
- 25:56Roda vs Rails plugins
- 29:05Replacing Rails with Roda
- 29:47Conclusion & Q&A
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