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Sinatra was designed and developed by Blake Mizerany (bmizerany) in
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California. Continued development would not be possible without the ongoing
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financial support provided by [Heroku](http://heroku.com) and the emotional
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support provided by Adam Wiggins (adamwiggins) of Heroku, Chris Wanstrath (defunkt),
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PJ Hyett (pjhyett), and the rest of the GitHub crew.
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Special thanks to the following extraordinary individuals, who-out which
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Sinatra would not be possible:
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* Ryan Tomayko (rtomayko) for constantly fixing whitespace errors 60d5006
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* Ezra Zygmuntowicz (ezmobius) for initial help and letting Blake steal
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some of merbs internal code.
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* Ari Lerner (http://xnot.org/) for his evangelism, spirit, and gumption
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that got Sinatra recognized from Day 1.
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* Christopher Schneid (cschneid) for The Book, the blog (gittr.com),
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irclogger.com, and a bunch of useful patches.
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* Markus Prinz (cypher) for patches over the years, caring about
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the README, and hanging in there when times were rough.
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* Simon Rozet (sr) for a ton of doc patches, HAML options, and all that
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advocacy stuff he's going to do for 1.0.
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* Erik Kastner (kastner) for fixing `MIME_TYPES` under Rack 0.5.
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* Ben Bleything (bleything) for caring about HTTP status codes and doc fixes.
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* Igal Koshevoy (igal) for root path detection under Thin/Passenger.
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* Jon Crosby (jcrosby) for coffee breaks, doc fixes, and just because, man.
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* Karel Minarik (karmi) for screaming until the website came back up.
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* Jeremy Evans (jeremyevans) for unbreaking optional path params (twice!)
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* The GitHub guys for stealing Blake's table.
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* Nickolas Means (nmeans) for Sass template support.
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* Victor Hugo Borja (vic) for splat'n routes specs and doco.
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* Avdi Grimm (avdi) for basic RSpec support.
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* Jack Danger Canty for a more accurate root directory and for making me
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watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaHLHgskkw) just now.
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* Mathew Walker for making escaped paths work with static files.
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* Millions of Us for having the problem that led to Sinatra's conception.
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* Songbird for the problems that helped Sinatra's future become realized.
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* Rick Olson (technoweenie) for the killer plug at RailsConf '08.
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* Steven Garcia for the amazing custom artwork you see on 404's and 500's
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* Pat Nakajima (nakajima) for fixing non-nested params in nested params Hash's.
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* Konstantin Haase for his hard work and ongoing commitment to improving
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Sinatra, for 1.1.0, 1.2.0 and beyond..
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* Zachary Scott for adding Konstantin to the AUTHORS file. He also did help
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writing the book, but mainly for adding Konstantin.
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* Gabriel Andretta for having people wonder whether our documentation is
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actually in English or in Spanish.
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* Vasily Polovnyov, Nickolay Schwarz, Luciano Sousa, Wu Jiang, Mickael Riga,
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Bernhard Essl, Janos Hardi, Kouhei Yanagita and "burningTyger" for willingly
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translating whatever ends up in the README.
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* [Wordy](http://www.wordy.com/) for proofreading our README. 73e137d
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* cactus for digging through code and specs, multiple times.
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* Nicolás Sanguinetti (foca) for strong demand of karma and shaping
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and last but not least:
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* Frank Sinatra (chairman of the board) for having so much class he
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deserves a web-framework named after him.
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For a complete list of all contributors to Sinatra itself, run `rake authors`.
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