Middleman and Sinatra Together

#1

Anyone can tell me how I can integrate some of the features from Sinatra into Middleman? I only need to use Sinatra for dynamic routes. I thought this would be easy to do since Middleman is built on top of Sinatra.

#2

Middleman versions prior to 3.x used Sinatra, but the modern releases no longer do. However, it’s still very easy to use Sinatra. In your config.rb:


require "sinatra"

class MySinatra < Sinatra::Base
  get "/" do
    "Hello World (Sinatra)"
  end
  get "/derp.html" do
    "De doo"
  end
end

map "/sinatra" do
  run MySinatra
end

If you want to output some of the Sinatra content as static files during build, use the endpoint command:

configure :build do
  endpoint "my-sinatra-file.html", :path => "/sinatra/some_route"
end
#3

Sweet, that worked. Out of curiosity, what is the “/derp.html” route for? I have seen that line of code before but is it just a smoke test? I’m still new to both sinatra and middleman so please forgive my ignorance.

#4

Yeah, it’s just a fake example route.

#5

I tried this example.

I’ve got two problems:

  1. When I run middleman build Webrick starts up and sits there until interrupted
  2. Can’t find any docs for this or endpoint method

Further info on 1. I found this behaviour occured by simply adding sinatra (and nothing else) to an empty middleman init X Gemfile. So I think something odd is going on there.

Any help onthis greatly appreciated.