Quick run through of getting started with the Sinatra micro web framework on Windows.

1. Getting started with Sinatra
on Windows

2. Install RubyStack
• Go to http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack/
• Click on the “Installer” button
• Once the installer has finished
downloading, run it.

3. Install Sinatra
• Open the Start Menu and find the RubyStack
console
– You can do this by typing “Use Bitnami RubyStack”
in the search box on the start menu.
– From the RubyStack console, type the following:
• gem install sinatra
• When I did this, it barfed on the docs for Sinatra. The
important thing to see is “2 gems installed successfully”

4. Create the Ruby file
• From the RubyStack console, change
directories to someplace you’ll remember
– i.e. cd Users[your user name]Desktop
• Create the file
– touch sinatra-demo.rb

5. Edit the file
• notepad sinatra-demo.rb
• Enter the following text (then save the file):
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘sinatra’
get ‘/’ do
“This is the sinatra demo page!”
end

6. Start Sinatra
• From the RubyStack console:
– ruby sinatra-demo.rb
– Note the port number Sinatra starts under
• Probably 4,5,6,7 (har, har)

7. Open local host
• Open a browser window, then type
– localhost: + port number
• i.e. localhost:4567
• You should see:
• “This is the sinatra demo page!”