Camping list - Dec 2011 - Camping.use Before, Rack::File.new('public')

Here''s one useful snippet:

  def (Before="").new(a,*o)Rack::Cascade.new(o<<a)end

This means that this app:

  module App
    use Before, Rack::File.new(''public'')
  end

Will pass all requests through Rack::File.new(''public'') first,
and
only proceed to App if that returns 404. This can be very useful for
serving static stuff in development mode (Rack::File will serve files
from the ''public'' directory if it matches the URL; e.g.
./public/jquery.js will be available at localhost:3301/jquery.js)

Maybe we should add it to camping.rb?

// Magnus Holm

I think that''s immensely useful. It''ll allow me to keep
JS/CSS/HTML
separate from the app files but still packaged with the app.

Dave

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Magnus Holm <judofyr at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Here''s one useful snippet:
>
> ?def (Before="").new(a,*o)Rack::Cascade.new(o<<a)end
>
> This means that this app:
>
> ?module App
> ? ?use Before, Rack::File.new(''public'')
> ?end
>
> Will pass all requests through Rack::File.new(''public'')
first, and
> only proceed to App if that returns 404. This can be very useful for
> serving static stuff in development mode (Rack::File will serve files
> from the ''public'' directory if it matches the URL; e.g.
> ./public/jquery.js will be available at localhost:3301/jquery.js)
>
> Maybe we should add it to camping.rb?
>
> // Magnus Holm
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-- 
Dave

I usually just use Rack::Static:

module App
  use Rack::Static, :urls => [''/static'']
end

This would serve ./static/jquery.js at
localhost:3301/static/jquery.js, though - with the directory included
in URL - but will also serve files from subdirectories recursively (I
don''t know if Rack::File does this).

-- Matma Rex

2011/12/16 Bartosz Dziewo?ski <matma.rex at
gmail.com>:
> I usually just use Rack::Static:
>
> module App
> ?use Rack::Static, :urls => [''/static'']
> end
>
> This would serve ./static/jquery.js at
> localhost:3301/static/jquery.js, though - with the directory included
> in URL - but will also serve files from subdirectories recursively (I
> don''t know if Rack::File does this).
Yeah, that works, but I hate how /static/ is needed in the URL. The
only reason Before is actually needed is because no-one in Rack
thought of creating a Rack::File-ish middleware. Rack::Cascade works
nice, but it can''t be used as a middleware. This simply turns
Rack::Cascade into a middleware.