Question

I want to be able to pass a specific route in my web app. Its a good size (and growing) sinatra app.

what I have

get '/' do
  haml :Hello_World
end

what I want

get '/' do
  haml :/specific/path/Hello_World
end

I realize I could change the root directory with
set :views, settings.root + '/my/path'

But this really isn’t a preferable option because I need multiple specific routes.

Answer 1

In order to have a symbol that contains forward slashes you need to surround it with quotes. So if you want to render a view in a directory just surround the path with quotes. So your example would become…

get '/' do
  haml :'/specific/path/Hello_World'
end