Deploying “Modular” style Sinatra Apps with Phusion Passenger

There’s plenty of documentation on how to deploy “Classic” style Sintra applications with Phusion Passenger, but it’s not immediately obviously how to deploy the new “Modular” style app (created with Sinatra::Base). Fortunately, it’s simple, the resulting class can be passed to “run” inside you “config.ru” file, something like:

require 'rubygems'
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib/my_app')

run MyApp

That’s it.

Instructions you find for “Classic” Sintra apps have you setting “:env” to the ENV[‘RACK_ENV’] before running the app. As of Sintra 1.0 it’s “:environment” and it’s automatically set to ENV[‘RACK_ENV’] (or “:development” if RACK_ENV is not set). You’ll also see instructions for setting “:run” to false, this is not nessecary for “Modular” apps.