Define sinatra request routes in included files - ruby

Question

I am using Sinatra and I would like to have my project structed in a way that keeps all requests for a specific action in separated files.
The problem I'm running into is that the routes aren't registered with sinatra, and it always 404s and runs my not_found handler, even though I've included a file with the route.
Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve; Rackup would start the Info app which requires user and post. Info only contains a error and not found handler, and the related routes go in the corresponding required file.
config.ru:
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
Bundler.require
require 'rack'
require './info.rb'
run Info
info.rb:
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
require 'sinatra'
class Info < Sinatra::Base
require './user.rb'
require './post.rb'
# 500 handler
error StandardError do
status 500
content_type :json
return '{"error": "Internal server error", "code": 500}'
end
not_found do
status 404
content_type :json
return '{"error": "Page not found", "code": 404}'
end
end
And user.rb (post.rb would look the same):
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
require 'sinatra'
get '/1/user/:userid' do
# request stuff
end

Answer 1

require doesn’t work the way you seem to think it does. When you call require './user.rb', even though you do it inside the body of class Info < Sinatra::Base, its contents are not loaded as if they were inside that class. Instead they are parsed at the top level, and the routes are added to the default Sinatra::Application and not your application class.
You will have to have your user and post routes defined inside the same class body:
#info.rb
require 'sinatra/base' # Require 'sinatra/base' if you are using modular style.
class Info < Sinatra::Base
# It's a bit unusual to have require inside a class, but not
# wrong as such, and you might want to have the class defined
# before loading the other files.
require_relative 'user.rb' # require_relative is probably safer here.
require_relative 'post.rb'
# ... error handlers etc.
end
#user.rb
require 'sinatra/base'
# The routes need to be in the same class.
class Info < Sinatra::Base
get '/1/user/:userid' do
# request stuff
end
end