Setting Sinatra template options works locally, broken on Heroku - ruby

Question

My Sinatra web site uses an admittedly ghetto way of switching between two languages, which works perfectly on my local machine, but not on Heroku.
My app.rb is as follows:
require 'sinatra'
get '/' do
set :erb, :views => settings.views + "/en"
erb :index, :layout => false, :views => settings.views
end
get '/tr' do
set :erb, :views => settings.views + "/tr"
redirect to('/home')
end
get '/en' do
set :erb, :views => settings.views + "/en"
redirect to('/home')
end
get '/home' do
erb :home
end
get '/products' do
erb :products
end
...
When I click on the links that go to the /en and /tr urls, I am correctly redirected to the /home link, but the views folder does not change.
My gems are the same versions in both environments:
rack (1.4.1)
rack-protection (1.2.0)
tilt (1.3.3)
sinatra (1.3.3)
bundler (1.3.2)
Link to the site
Help, please.

Answer 1

I suggest replacing your admittedly ghetto way with something more robust like the i18n gem
here is a tutorial
And instead of using the browser's language (in example) you could do something like this in a before filter
before do
case request.path_info
when /^\/tr/ then set :locale, "tr"
else set :locale, "en"
end
end
and in helpers
helpers do
def get_locale
settings.locale
end
# other helpers from example
end
That way you only need one copy of your view templates, reducing the complication of changing all views when you only need to change one element (for example)
If you want to test your sinatra app like it will act on heroku you can throw on a RACK_ENV=production before starting your server. Ex. RACK_ENV=production ruby my_app.rb