Question

I would like to use a pure ruby database (kirbybase http://www.netpromi.com/files/kirbybase_ruby_manual.html ) together with Sinatra so in ruby we would have something like this to display a record:

require 'kirbybase'
db = KirbyBase.new
cars_tbl= db.get_table(:cars)
ferrari = cars_tbl.select { |r| r.recno == 9 }
puts ferrari

or for all records

results = cars_tbl.select(:name,:race,:color,:recno).sort(+:color)

what would be the best way to integrate this with Sinatra without obfuscating the “rubysh “kirbybase syntax?

Answer 1

To take a leaf about of sinatra-redis‘s book, you can do something like this:

require 'sinatra'
require 'kirbybase'

helpers do
  # Create a helper to allow easier access to settings.kirby
  # Name it whatever you want
  def kirby
    settings.kirby
  end
end

configure do
  # Initialise kirby
  set :kirby, KirbyBase.new
end

get '/' do
  cars_tbl = kirby.get_table(:cars)
  ferrari = cars_tbl.select { |r| r.recno == 9 }
  "Car is #{ferrari}"
end