For Inspectinator (a sinatra microapp), I needed a database-less authentication solution that was as lightweight as possible, but with a reasonable amount of security and maintainability. I came up with something that suits this purpose well, and I'm sharing it in case anyone is looking for something similar. I call it EasyAuth. Here ya go

For Inspectinator, I needed a lightweight token generator to allow people to share their results. I found a great solution, and learned a cool ruby trick, too. Details

Inspectinator -- an online parser for ruby/rails #inspect strings. Still playing around with the parsing a bit, but should be mostly working. More details/feedback