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Pinprick is a small template library for helping with deployment of Sinatra on hostingrails.com (and maybe other shared hosts).

Here is the short guide on how it works. In the example I will be creating a application called ‘myapp’ located in my home directory.

git clone git://github.com/mazur/pinprick.git myapp
git clone git://github.com/sinatra/sinatra.git myapp/sinatra
chmod -R 755 myapp

After executing these three lines your sinatra app is ready and configured. All you need to do is create the proper symlink. Here I will just link my web root to the new app.

rm public_html
ln -s ~/myapp public_html
killall dispatch.fcgi

Now you should be able to visit http://www.yourdomain.com and see a quote from Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb.

Your sinatra app can be found and edited in ~/myapp/app.rb

Enjoy!