Comments on: Deploying Sinatra on DreamHost - Internal Server Error with views (RESOLVED!)

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:05:03 +0000

@Aaron — I just had the same issue with my first attempt to deploy a test Sinatra app on Dreamhost; even my test app was having problems with haml. I was able to fix it by vendoring haml (run ‘gem unpack haml’; upload the results to your webroot/vendor/, and use ‘require “vendor/haml-x.x.x/lib/haml.rb”‘ instead of just ‘require “haml”‘).

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:24:52 +0000

Thanks!
My issue was with haml. For some reason erb works as expected but haml fails.
I was having problems still even with the change in the config.ru :view variable.
I am really still not so sure on my app path situation, this is my first ruby app.
but anyway, your first solution worked for me.

By: Jerod

Jerod — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:31:36 +0000

Thanks for this. I had the same problem when deploying my Sinatra app. Works like a charm!

I wrote a quick and dirty IP to location mapper using the Google Maps API.

http://ip2loc.jerodsanto.net

By: Chris Schneider

Chris Schneider — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:12:34 +0000

Awesome getting it to work! I wonder why Passenger is handing back such a weird path.

To make it more flexible, instead of hard coding ‘/path/to/app/views’, you could do a:

set :views, File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ‘views’)

That way you can move/redeploy your app with no problems, as all the references are local.