Static page routing in Sinatra (Ruby)

Question

You can serve static files with Sinatra by placing them in public/ (by default) -- I have an index.html in there at the moment, but how can I make the

Answer 1

Probably a better answer will eventually come, until then this is my shot at it.

If this is not what you want:

get '/' do
  redirect '/index.html'
end

You might do something like this:

get '/' do
  File.new('public/index.html').readlines
end

I'd go with the first one though, Not sure why you want to avoid that redirect