grunt-sinatra

Control your sinatra server via Grunt

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-sinatra --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sinatra');

The "sinatra" task

Overview

The sinatra:serve task can run without configuration by default, it will run rackup on the project root, serving the files on the port 9292.

Sinatra:serve

Launches the server and whenever the the parent process ends, it terminates the server.

Sinatra:start

Launches the server and leaves it running even when the parent process is no longer running.

Sinatra:kill

Terminates an already running server.

Options

pidFile

Type: String Default: '/tmp/sinatraServer.pid'

Path to the pid file in case you wanna run the server by itself.

Getting Started

In your project's Gruntfile, add sinatra:serve to the taskList object passed into grunt.registerTask.

    grunt.registerTask('local', [
        'concat',
        'uglify',
        'sass',
        'autoprefixer',
        'cssmin',
        'assemble',
        'imagemin',
        'copy',
        'sinatra:serve',
        'open:chromium',
        'watch'
    ]);

Running tests

To run the test suite, first invoke the following command within the repo, installing the development dependencies:

$ npm install

Then run the tests:

$ make tests

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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