How can I use a "side sinatra app" when deploying?

Question

I've got an ordinary rails app which now gets some widgets which are rendered inside a Sinatra app.

On my local machine I run rails s and ruby lib/sinatra/widget.rb which then fetches stuff from the rails app. As a result localhost:3000 and localhost:4567 work fine together.

How can I do all this in a staging environment? The deployment itself is working and the rails app starts up. How can I access the Sinatra stuff now?

One idea would be mounting the Sinatra app to some path in the rails app? Any ideas, suggestions?

dimakura · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-14T14:44:46.090

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Here is an article from Thoughtbot, which shows two approaches on how to use Sinatra application inside your Rails app.

The simpler method is to use Rails router:

require 'my_sinatra_app'

MyRailsApp::Application.routes.draw do
  mount MySinatraApp.new => '/sinatra'
end

It's a preferable approach unless you need a custom middleware for each app.

edited Sep 14 '15 at 14:44

answered Sep 14 '15 at 13:51

dimakura

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That's what I thought as a solution so I'll go with that. Thanks! – Cojones Sep 14 '15 at 14:20
What's missing if I get a `uninitialized constant MySinatraApp (NameError)`? This is how I named it: `class MySinatraApp < Sinatra::Base ` – Cojones Sep 14 '15 at 14:32
This is my routes.rb: `mount MySinatraApp.new => '/sinatra'` – Cojones Sep 14 '15 at 14:33
@Cojones have you required it in your `routes.rb`? I've updated the answer for a file in `lib/my_sinatra_app.rb` – dimakura Sep 14 '15 at 14:44
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Requiring solved it, put it into the autoload paths though. Thanks! – Cojones Sep 14 '15 at 15:01

How can I use a "side sinatra app" when deploying?

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