Why Does Brut Exist?

I love writing Ruby, but grew tired of writing Rails. Rails is great, and has been great to me over the years. I've written a lot of books about it! But the churn and increasing configuration burden made me think: what if we had another way to build web apps in Ruby?

What if it was totally different, but still focused on being straightforward and simple? What if it had fewer abstractions, less configuration, and not as much stuff?

My thinking is, you need to know HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, Ruby, HTTP, and a few other things to make a web app. What if we tried to limit the additional abstractions you'd have to learn?

That's what Brut is trying to be. Straightfoward, direct abstractions or translations of stuff you already know. The raw web…or at least as raw as it can be.