So, I've got a sinatra app I'm working on with the app hosting several different microsites for clients. The way I have my public and views directory structured is like so:
sites/
site1/
public/
style.css
views/
layout.haml
general.haml
site2/
public/
style.css
views/
layout.haml
general.haml
Now, when the request comes in I've got the following two lines:
set :views, Proc.new { File.join(root, "sites/#{site}/views") }
set :public, Proc.new { File.join(root, "sites/#{site}/public") }
When the incoming request comes in, and site gets defined as "site1" the views work exactly as desired with them rendering out of the appropriate folder. However, a call to the "/style.css" route returns a 404 error.
When I make the public directory in the app root and place style.css there it works fine. However, I need this to work on a site-by-site basis. I'm going off of the official docs by Sinatra but it still is not working, even if I set
enable :static
or if I use
set :static, true
As described in the docs. Any ideas?
I imagine this has to do with how you’re setting site. I believe you’ll want to make site a method on your application rather than a static setting, if I understand correctly what you’re asking. This example does that, and worked as expected for me:
class Test < Sinatra::Base
set :public, Proc.new { File.join(site, "public") }
set :static, true
register do
def site
["x", "y", "z"][rand * 3]
end
end
get "/" do
settings.public
end
end
However, I’m not sure Sinatra was designed to serve static files this way, and there may be better solutions available anyway. For example, you may be able to do this entirely in Nginx or Apache, bypassing the need to have Sinatra serve static files at all.