sinatra helper in external file

Question

I have lot of helpers in my main Sinatra project_name.rb and I want to remove them to the external file, what is the best practice to do that ?

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Answer 1

Alas, if, like me, you are building a modular Sinatra app, it's a little more complex than simply moving the helpers out into another file.

The only way I got this to work is as follows.

first up in your app (I'll call this my_modular_app.rb)

require 'sinatra/base'
require 'sinatra/some_helpers'

class MyModularApp < Sinatra::Base
  helpers Sinatra::SomeHelpers

  ...

end

and then create the folder structure ./lib/sinatra/ and create some_helpers.rb as follows:

require 'sinatra/base'

module Sinatra
  module SomeHelpers

    def help_me_world
      logger.debug "hello from a helper"
    end

  end

  helpers SomeHelpers

end

doing this you can simply split all your helpers up into multiple files, affording more clarity in larger projects.