ryandotsmith

A Backbone.js demo app (Sinatra Backend)

Oct 16 2010

Updates

• 04/10/2011 - Updated application.js and application.rb thanks to @rebo's comments

In this article, I will walk through some simple steps to get a [demo app][2] up and running with [Backbone.js][3] and [Sinatra][4] on [Heroku][5].

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"""Provides a utility to inject environment variables into argparse definitions.
Currently requires explicit naming of env vars to check for"""

import argparse
import os

# Courtesy of http://stackoverflow.com/a/10551190 with env-var retrieval fixed
class EnvDefault(argparse.Action):
    """An argparse action class that auto-sets missing default values from env
    vars. Defaults to requiring the argument."""