Sinatra and reloading

Posted by Stephan on 25. May 2009

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.

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3 Responses to “Sinatra and reloading”

Justin said

10. June 2009 at 00:32
Thanks for this. I was going nuts trying to figure out why Sinatra wasn’t reloading.

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ian said

25. August 2010 at 21:58
very nice.. very nice!

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Rytis Lukoševičius said

13. November 2010 at 10:55
It was my first try of sinatra and I was like “How do I make this stuff to development mode…” It appears that there’s nothing you can’t fix with a kick to the door and a Shotgun

Thanks for the tip paired with livereload it made a nice couple

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