How to map routes to controllers in Sinatra? - ruby

Question

I'd like to create a simple experimental MVC framework using Sinatra.
I'd like to define resources by name "pages" for example should resolve to:
/pages (index)
/pages/new
/pages/:id/show (show)
as WELL as map to app/controllers/PagesController.rb with corresponding get('/') to be responsible for the index, post('/pages/create') be responsible for creation, etc.
Trouble is even after reading the official documentation I'm terribly confused. I imagine I need to use non-classic Sinatra model for this, but could anyone point me in the right direction?
Thank you

Answer 1

If you want what I think you're wanting, I do this all the time. Initially for this scheme I used the travis-api source as a reference, but essentially what you want to do is extend Sinatra::Base in a "controller" class and then mount up your individual Sinatra "controllers" in rack, something like this:
module Endpoint
def self.included(base)
base.class_eval do
set(:prefix) { "/" << name[/[^:]+$/].downcase }
end
end
end
class Users < Sinatra::Base
include Endpoint
get '/' do
#logic here
end
get '/:id' do
#logic here
end
post '/' do
#logic here
end
patch '/:id' do
#logic here
end
end
class Posts < Sinatra::Base
include Endpoint
post '/' do
#logic here
end
end
and then something like this:
class App
require "lib/endpoints/users"
require "lib/endpoints/posts"
attr_reader :app
def initialize
#app = Rack::Builder.app do
[Users, Posts].each do |e|
map(e.prefix) { run(e.new) }
end
end
end
def call(env)
app.call(env)
end
end
You can adjust this to whatever you need, but the idea is the same, you separate your app into composable Sinatra applications that each have a prefix that they are mounted under using Rack. This particular example will give you routes for:
get '/users'
get '/users/:id'
post '/users'
patch '/users/:id'
get '/posts'

Answer 2

I'll give you a very simple example here:
Create a file controller.rb
get '/pages' do
#pages = Pages.all
erb :pages
end
Next create a views directory in the same folder as teh controller, and create a file named pages.html.erb
This is the corresponding view to your previously created controller action.
Here, you can type something like:
<% #pages.each do |p| %>
<%= p.title %>
<% end %>
Restart your server, visit localhost:PORT/pages and you will see a list of all your page titles.
You can check out this link for a simple sinatra tutorial - http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/singing-with-sinatra--net-18965

Answer 3

You can make this as complicated or as simple as you need. For example:
Rails makes a lot of magic happen under the hood, whereas Sinatra is more flexible at the cost of requiring you to implement some of this stuff yourself.
controller_map = {
'pages' => PagesController
}
post '/:controller/new' do
c = params[:controller]
module = controller_map[c]
module.create_new()
...
end
get '/:controller/:id/show' do
c = params[:controller]
id = params[:id]
module = controller_map[c]
module.get(id)
...
end