Rackup to use Thin instead of WEBrick

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Johnny Klassy picture Johnny Klassy · Oct 5, 2011 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

New to Sinatra, just development server up and running but rackup is using WEBrick instead of Thin, Thin gem is already installed, this has to be a simple configuration tweak but I don't know where. Oh while you are at it, does Thin auto-refresh when I change the source code? It appears that I have to stop and restart WEBrick when I make source code changes.

EDIT As suggested, thin start works with a tweak for my setup. By itself, it throws an error "start_tcp_server": no acceptor (RuntimeError) which means I already have another service running on that port. To resolve the issue, I simply run thin start -p 9292. Hope this helps someone else.

Answer

jodell picture jodell · Oct 6, 2011

I believe you'll likely just want to start up thin via something like:

bundle exec rackup -s thin

If you're on OSX you might want to check out Pow for your development environment.

For reloading files between requests: How to get Sinatra to auto-reload the file after each change?

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