Question

I’m currently building a Ruby app using Rack and Sinatra but I’m failing in using routes, implemented in other than the main app file. My first try was like this:

In the main file:

require 'sinatra'
require 'lib/web'

module NoCI
  class Main < Sinatra::Base
    include NoCI::Web
    load 'lib/web.rb'
  end
end

and in lib/web.rb:
require ‘sinatra’

module NoCI
  module Web
    get '/' do
      "Hello World"
    end
  end
end

But it did not work. Then I read about putting the routes into a sub class of my main class. No success either. Any hints, what I’m missing?

Update: I tried with ‘require’, ‘include’ and ‘load’, mixing all possible combinations, nothing worked for me.

Answer 1

You can use included hook to implement what you want.

require 'sinatra'
require 'lib/web'

module NoCI
  class Main < Sinatra::Base
    include NoCI::Web
  end
end

lib/web.rb

module NoCI
  module Web
    def self.included(base)
      base.get '/' do
        'Hello World!'
      end
    end
  end
end

The code inside included will execute when you include this module, with the NoCI::Base as base.