Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction to the Imaginative World of Computational Thinking with Code, Third Edition, Video Enhanced Edition

Exercise 50. Your First Website

These final three exercises will be very hard and you should take your time with them. In this first one you’ll build a simple web version of one of your games. Before you attempt this exercise, you must have completed Exercise 46 successfully and have a working gem installed such that you can install packages and know how to make a skeleton project directory. If you don’t remember how to do this, go back to Exercise 46 and do it all over again.

Installing Sinatra

Before creating your first web application, you’ll first need to install the “web framework” called Sinatra. The term “framework” generally means “some ...