Is it possible to to rewrite the base URL in Sinatra? - ruby

Question

Is it possible to to rewrite the base URL?
E.g. instead of www.host.com/ to use www.host.com/blah/ as
a base url and so:
get '/' do
...
end
would work for www.host.com/blah/
I could append to all my routes '/blah/..' but any gems etc.
would fail to work as well.
This can be done in Rails easily and I would like to have it in Sinatra as well.

Answer 1

I use a rack middleware for this rack-rewrite and I am quite happy with it :)
use Rack::Rewrite do
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/utils}, '/utils'
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/ctrl}, '/ctrl'
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/}, '/'
end
EDIT:
Not sure if I understand your problem, but here are a config.ru file
# encoding: utf-8
require './config/trst_conf'
require 'rack-flash'
require 'rack/rewrite'
use Rack::Session::Cookie, :secret => 'zsdgryst34kkufklfSwsqwess'
use Rack::Flash
use Rack::Rewrite do
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/auth}, '/auth'
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/utils}, '/utils'
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/srv}, '/srv'
rewrite %r{^/\w{2}/}, '/'
end
map '/auth' do
run TrstAuth.new
end
map '/utils' do
run TrstUtils.new
end
map '/srv' do
map '/tsk' do
run TrstSysTsk.new
end
map '/' do
run TrstSys.new
end
end
map '/' do
run TrstPub.new
end
and an example Sinatra::Base subclass
# encoding: utf-8
class TrstAuth < Sinatra::Base
# Render stylesheets
get '/stylesheets/:name.css' do
content_type 'text/css', :charset => 'utf-8'
sass :"stylesheets/#{params[:name]}", Compass.sass_engine_options
end
# Render login screen
get '/login' do
haml :"/trst_auth/login", :layout => request.xhr? ? false : :'layouts/trst_pub'
end
# Authentication
post '/login' do
if user = TrstUser.authenticate(params[:login_name], params[:password])
session[:user] = user.id
session[:tasks] = user.daily_tasks
flash[:msg] = {:msg => {:txt => I18n.t('trst_auth.login_msg'), :class => "info"}}.to_json
redirect "#{lang_path}/srv"
else
flash[:msg] = {:msg => {:txt => I18n.t('trst_auth.login_err'), :class => "error"}}.to_json
redirect "#{lang_path}/"
end
end
# Logout
get '/logout' do
session[:user] = nil
session[:daily_tasks] = nil
flash[:msg] = {:msg => {:txt => I18n.t('trst_auth.logout_msg'), :class => "info"}}.to_json
redirect "#{lang_path}/"
end
end
maybe this helps :) full source on github.

Answer 2

In a before block you can edit env['PATH_INFO]`; Sinatra will then use the edited value for routing.
For your example, something like this might work...
before do
env['PATH_INFO'].sub!(/^\/blah/, '')
end
I agree with the other answers that using a middleware component is a more robust solution but if you want something concise and simple, that works inside the Sinatra app instead of via config.ru, then munging the Rack environment is not bad.

Answer 3

You could have a look at https://github.com/josh/rack-mount, maybe that one can help you out?