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Show HN: Getting started with Ruby and Sinatra

• yoloswagins 12y ago
  Really great work, J. Your guide goes into the right about of detail about getting Sinatra up and running, without any fluff, or 'humor'.
• decasia 12y ago
  Title should read "getting started with Ruby and Sinatra."
  • kang 12y ago
    .. and not on windows. Those installations are not so simple on windows.
    • j_mcnally 12y ago
      Yep, sorry, I should do some windows guides down the road.
  • j_mcnally 12y ago
    fixed, thank you!
• spoiler 12y ago
  The guide is alright, but it could be improved. I'd add/mention/change the following: Installing Ruby on Windows: http://rubyinstaller.org/ http://rubyinstaller.org/ Running `bundle install` is not a good idea, because it will install gems as root (and globally); unless you use bundler version >= 2, which isn't the stable release yet (it defaults to the behaviour in the next sentence). A better alternative is to use `bundle install --path .bundle`. Another thing that's maybe worth mentioning that Sinatra has a "DSL" with lots of interesting settings, which can be changed using `set`, `enable`, `disable`, and mention how to access those settings using the `settings` object. For example, an interesting settings that could be mentioned are `:port`, `:public_folder`, `:static`, and `:sessions`. Also, perhaps you could link to the official website, if people want to look into more details of the guide. A side note, and a design idea for the website (although it would require more effort overall) is to add "tabs" for Linux/Windows/OSX/etc operating systems. For this particular guide, there's not many differences (if any).