How mix in routes in Sinatra for a better structure

Question

I found nothing about how I can mix-in routes from another module, like this:

module otherRoutes   get "/route1" do    end end      class Server < Sinatra::Base   include otherRoutes    get "/" do     #do something   end end 

Is that possible?

Answer 1

You don't do include with Sinatra. You use extensions together with register.

I.e. build your module in a separate file:

require 'sinatra/base'  module Sinatra   module OtherRoutes     def self.registered(app)       app.get "/route1" do         ...       end     end   end   register OtherRoutes # for non modular apps, just include this file and it will register end 

And then register:

class Server < Sinatra::Base   register Sinatra::OtherRoutes   ... end 

It's not really clear from the docs that this is the way to go for non-basic Sinatra apps. Hope it helps others.

Answer 2

You could do this:

module OtherRoutes   def self.included( app )     app.get "/route1" do       ...     end   end end  class Server < Sinatra::Base   include OtherRoutes   ... end 

Unlike Ramaze, Sinatra's routes are not methods, and so cannot use Ruby's method lookup chaining directly. Note that with this you can't later monkey-patch OtherRoutes and have the changes reflected in Server; this is just a one-time convenience for defining the routes.