Sinatra

Sinatra is a Web Application Framework. It includes a Web Server and lets you write code to show when people request web pages.

Hi, Sinatra

1. install Sinatra by running gem install sinatra on the command line

2. create a file called hi.rb containing this:

   require 'sinatra'
   
   get '/hi' do
     "Hi!"
   end
   

3. run ruby hi.rb

Now open a Web Browser (like Firefox or Chrome or Safari or Internet Explorer) and enter the following URL into the address bar:

http://localhost:4567/hi

Hello, Whoever

Change hi.rb to look like this:

require 'sinatra'

get '/hi/:who' do
  "Hi " + params[:who] + "!"
end

Now go back to the command line and restart your web application:

CONTROL-C
ruby hi.rb

And go to your browser and visit the following URL:

http://localhost:4567/hi/alice

:who? what?

To Sinatra, the line

get '/hi/:who' do

means, "When someone asks for /hi/, take the rest of the URL and put it inside the params hash.

So inside the do block, params[:who] contains the string "alice".

LAB: Yeller

Make a route in your Sinatra application so that when someone requests this:

/yell/ahoy

they see this:

AHOY!!!

and when someone requests this:

/yell/dinnertime

they see this:

DINNERTIME!!!

Detour: Deploying to Heroku

• todo - link to Railsbridge pages describing account setup & deploy steps