Question

I use only one file for sinatra application (sinatra.rb) where I have a route:

get '/ajax2?' do
  my_function()
end

Can I call my_function() from another ruby script (cron.rb) and passing all the params? So whatever code is in this route is executed the same way if I accessed it from a browser?

I need to call it from a cron job.

• ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32]
• sinatra (1.3.2)
• sinatra-advanced-routes (0.5.1)
• sinatra-reloader (0.5.0)

Answer 1

update:

pretty sure all you need is a module, like so, in my_module.rb:

module MyModule
  def my_function
  end
end

then in your app.rb:

require './my_module.rb'
helpers MyModule

you you can require and include that module in your cron.rb

---

If I follow your question correctly (not sure I do), pull your code out into an extension, so your directory structure looks like this:

myapp/
|-lib/
  |-my_extension.rb
|-app.rb

then in my_extension.rb:

module Sinatra
  module MyExtension
    def self.registered(app)
      app.get '/ajax2?' do
        "hallo"
      end
    end
  end
  register MyExtension
end

and in app.rb all you should need is:

require './lib/my_extension.rb'

that’s the first step, then move the contents of your extension into a gem and you can require the gem in your Gemfile in any sinatra application.