It seems that in Sinatra all route handlers are being written into a single file, if I understand right it acts as a one large/small controller. Is there any way to split it into separate independent files, so when let's say somebody calls "/" - one action is executed, and if something like "/posts/2" is received then another action - similar logic that is applied in PHP?
Here is a basic template for Sinatra apps that I use. (My larger apps have 200+ files broken out like this, not counting vendor'd gems, covering 75-100 explicit routes. Some of these routes are Regexp routes covering an additional 50+ route patterns.) When using Thin, you run an app like this using:
thin -R config.ru start
Edit: I'm now maintaining my own Monk skeleton based on the below called Riblits. To use it to copy my template as the basis for your own projects:
# Before creating your project
monk add riblits git://github.com/Phrogz/riblits.git
# Inside your empty project directory
monk init -s riblits
File Layout:
config.ru app.rb helpers/ init.rb partials.rb models/ init.rb user.rb routes/ init.rb login.rb main.rb views/ layout.haml login.haml main.haml
config.ru
root = ::File.dirname(__FILE__)
require ::File.join( root, 'app' )
run MyApp.new
app.rb
# encoding: utf-8
require 'sinatra'
require 'haml'
class MyApp < Sinatra::Application
enable :sessions
configure :production do
set :haml, { :ugly=>true }
set :clean_trace, true
end
configure :development do
# ...
end
helpers do
include Rack::Utils
alias_method :h, :escape_html
end
end
require_relative 'models/init'
require_relative 'helpers/init'
require_relative 'routes/init'
helpers/init.rb
# encoding: utf-8
require_relative 'partials'
MyApp.helpers PartialPartials
require_relative 'nicebytes'
MyApp.helpers NiceBytes
helpers/partials.rb
# encoding: utf-8
module PartialPartials
def spoof_request(uri,env_modifications={})
call(env.merge("PATH_INFO" => uri).merge(env_modifications)).last.join
end
def partial( page, variables={} )
haml page, {layout:false}, variables
end
end
helpers/nicebytes.rb
# encoding: utf-8
module NiceBytes
K = 2.0**10
M = 2.0**20
G = 2.0**30
T = 2.0**40
def nice_bytes( bytes, max_digits=3 )
value, suffix, precision = case bytes
when 0...K
[ bytes, 'B', 0 ]
else
value, suffix = case bytes
when K...M then [ bytes / K, 'kiB' ]
when M...G then [ bytes / M, 'MiB' ]
when G...T then [ bytes / G, 'GiB' ]
else [ bytes / T, 'TiB' ]
end
used_digits = case value
when 0...10 then 1
when 10...100 then 2
when 100...1000 then 3
else 4
end
leftover_digits = max_digits - used_digits
[ value, suffix, leftover_digits > 0 ? leftover_digits : 0 ]
end
"%.#{precision}f#{suffix}" % value
end
module_function :nice_bytes # Allow NiceBytes.nice_bytes outside of Sinatra
end
models/init.rb
# encoding: utf-8
require 'sequel'
DB = Sequel.postgres 'dbname', user:'bduser', password:'dbpass', host:'localhost'
DB << "SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'UTF8';"
require_relative 'users'
models/user.rb
# encoding: utf-8
class User < Sequel::Model
# ...
end
routes/init.rb
# encoding: utf-8
require_relative 'login'
require_relative 'main'
routes/login.rb
# encoding: utf-8
class MyApp < Sinatra::Application
get "/login" do
@title = "Login"
haml :login
end
post "/login" do
# Define your own check_login
if user = check_login
session[ :user ] = user.pk
redirect '/'
else
redirect '/login'
end
end
get "/logout" do
session[:user] = session[:pass] = nil
redirect '/'
end
end
routes/main.rb
# encoding: utf-8
class MyApp < Sinatra::Application
get "/" do
@title = "Welcome to MyApp"
haml :main
end
end
views/layout.haml
!!! XML
!!! 1.1
%html(xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml")
%head
%title= @title
%link(rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon.png")
%meta(http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8")
%meta(http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" )
%meta(http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" )
%meta(http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" )
%meta(http-equiv="expires" content="0" )
%meta(name="author" content="MeWho")
%body{id:@action}
%h1= @title
#content= yield