Welcome to the first installment on the RL blog, of a mini series – “How do I learn and master Sinatra?” – by top Rubyists using Sinatra. The interview series will provide insight and commentary from these notable Sinatra developers, with the goal of facilitating and providing answers to the questions Ruby beginners face on how to learn and master Sinatra.

Hey there, put on your tutorial hat. Today we're going to learn how to write a dirt simple pastie clone using Sinatra and Datamapper. For those of you unfamiliar with pastie systems, they're commonly used in IRC to paste bits of code to a globally-visible place outside of the channel.