Question

You can serve static files with Sinatra by placing them in public/ (by default) — I have an index.html in there at the moment, but how can I make the root point to that file without having to parse it as a template?

To be clear, I can access /index.html successfully, and I’d like to route / to be the same static file, but without redirecting. Any idea how to do this?

Answer 1

Probably a better answer will eventually come, until then this is my shot at it.

If this is not what you want:

get '/' do
  redirect '/index.html'
end

You might do something like this:

get '/' do
  File.new('public/index.html').readlines
end

I’d go with the first one though, Not sure why you want to avoid that redirect