Sinatra and reloading

Since its 0.9.2 release on 18th of May 2009, Sinatra doesn’t automatically reload files anymore – not even in development mode.

To achieve this use ’shotgun’

sudo gem install shotgun

and then start the server using:

shotgun <your_applicationname>.rb

The effect is essentially the same (apart from avoiding the issues the ‘traditional’ way of reloading apparently had – which is why it was removed). 

Thanks for pointing this out in this thread @ rubyforen.de.