Ruby/Sinatra part 2

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:38:19 +0000

Following up on my previous post, I decided to go the easier route and just install an older version of Ruby that didn’t have the problem with Sinatra, since I wanted a setup I could replicate easily, and editing the server.rb each time I installed wasn’t what I was going for. I downloaded 1.9.2-rc2 from http://ftp.ruby-lang.org//pub/ruby/1.9/, compiled it and it works:

[evan@evanfc12 ~]$ ruby --version
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-07-11 revision 28618) [x86_64-linux]
[evan@evanfc12 ~]$ ruby hi.rb ^C
[evan@evanfc12 ~]$ cat hi.rb

require ‘sinatra’

Trying to teach myself Ruby (again)

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:09:28 +0000

Now that I have a real web project to work on I figured it’s a good time to try and teach myself Ruby again. Sinatra seems to be the new hotness so that’s what I’m trying, but so far things aren’t going quite as I expected. Everything appears to be installed, but when I run the “Hello, World!” script, the webserver doesn’t start as it’s apparently supposed to do:

[evan@ehoffman 16:59:34 ~]$ ruby --version
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-linux]
[evan@ehoffman 16:59:39 ~]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'sinatra'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/evan
[evan@ehoffman 17:00:20 ~]$ cat hi.rb
#require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

get ‘/’ do “Hello World” end [evan@ehoffman 17:00:24 ~]$ ruby hi.rb [evan@ehoffman 17:00:33 ~]$

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Ruby/Sinatra part 2

Trying to teach myself Ruby (again)