This document discusses Padrino, a web framework built on Sinatra that aims to provide a structured and flexible structure. Padrino allows developers to choose different options for the ORM, testing framework, JavaScript library, template engine, and stylesheet to use. It has generators to quickly scaffold a project with the chosen options. The philosophy is to keep things simple to use and hack while giving developers freedom. Major features include being agnostic to different options, generators for scaffolding projects, mounting multiple apps, and an admin interface.