Mercury
... because Sinatra is not the only one performing on the stage.
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-- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------

Mercury aims to be a Sinatra-like web framework (or DSL, if you like) for 
creating web applications in Lua, quickly and painlessly.

  require 'mercury'
  
  module('hello', package.seeall, mercury.application)
  
  get('/', function() 
    return "Hello world!"
  end)

Mercury is currently in its very early stages of development, it started like 
an hack and right now it still is nothing more than that. Having said that, I 
thought that things might get interesting and so I decided to release the 
actual source code and start working on it to get it properly done.

-- About the name -------------------------------------------------------------

"Mercury" because:
 * like Sinatra, he is a legend of the music history. That is, Freddie Mercury.
 * most of the cool web projects coded in Lua have astronomical references: 
    - the Kepler Project (web development platform)
    - Orbit (MVC framework)
    - Cosmo (templating system)
    - Sputnik (wiki engine)
 * it is the smallest planet in our solar system and the nearest to the Sun... 
 * ... and Mercury is the smallest web framework and the nearest to the "core".

-- Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This README will be updated later with notes and instructions on how to get it 
working.

Want to help or contribute? Drop me a mail to suppakilla{at}gmail.com