Replaced the rerun gem with guard-rack; added some work to support Windows better; added a way to configure the application with config.yaml

.gitignore

@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ build-iPhoneSimulator/
 # Local database storage
 data/stgm.db
 
+# Local configuration
+data/config.yaml
+
 # Node modules for Grunt.js
 node_modules/
 

Gemfile

@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ gem 'kramdown', '~> 2.4'
 gem 'pandoc-ruby', '~> 2.1'
 
 # Use rerun gem to auto-reload app
-gem 'rerun'
+gem 'guard-rack'
 gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0' if Gem.win_platform?
 

Gemfile.lock

@@ -1,18 +1,42 @@
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
   specs:
+    coderay (1.1.3)
     ffi (1.15.5)
     ffi (1.15.5-x64-mingw-ucrt)
+    formatador (1.1.0)
+    guard (2.18.0)
+      formatador (>= 0.2.4)
+      listen (>= 2.7, < 4.0)
+      lumberjack (>= 1.0.12, < 2.0)
+      nenv (~> 0.1)
+      notiffany (~> 0.0)
+      pry (>= 0.13.0)
+      shellany (~> 0.0)
+      thor (>= 0.18.1)
+    guard-rack (2.2.1)
+      ffi
+      guard (~> 2.3)
+      spoon
     kramdown (2.4.0)
       rexml
     listen (3.8.0)
       rb-fsevent (~> 0.10, >= 0.10.3)
       rb-inotify (~> 0.9, >= 0.9.10)
+    lumberjack (1.2.8)
+    method_source (1.0.0)
     multi_json (1.15.0)
     mustermann (3.0.0)
       ruby2_keywords (~> 0.0.1)
+    nenv (0.3.0)
     nio4r (2.5.8)
+    notiffany (0.1.3)
+      nenv (~> 0.1)
+      shellany (~> 0.0)
     pandoc-ruby (2.1.7)
+    pry (0.14.2)
+      coderay (~> 1.1)
+      method_source (~> 1.0)
     puma (6.1.1)
       nio4r (~> 2.0)
     rack (2.2.6.2)
@@ -21,11 +45,10 @@ GEM
     rb-fsevent (0.11.2)
     rb-inotify (0.10.1)
       ffi (~> 1.0)
-    rerun (0.14.0)
-      listen (~> 3.0)
     rexml (3.2.5)
     ruby2_keywords (0.0.5)
     sequel (5.66.0)
+    shellany (0.0.1)
     sinatra (3.0.5)
       mustermann (~> 3.0)
       rack (~> 2.2, >= 2.2.4)
@@ -37,8 +60,11 @@ GEM
       rack-protection (= 3.0.5)
       sinatra (= 3.0.5)
       tilt (~> 2.0)
+    spoon (0.0.6)
+      ffi
     sqlite3 (1.6.1-x64-mingw-ucrt)
     sqlite3 (1.6.1-x86_64-linux)
+    thor (1.2.1)
     tilt (2.1.0)
     wdm (0.1.1)
 
@@ -47,10 +73,10 @@ PLATFORMS
   x86_64-linux
 
 DEPENDENCIES
+  guard-rack
   kramdown (~> 2.4)
   pandoc-ruby (~> 2.1)
   puma (~> 6.1)
-  rerun
   sequel (~> 5.66)
   sinatra (~> 3.0)
   sinatra-contrib (~> 3.0)

Guardfile

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+guard 'rack' do
+    watch('Gemfile.lock')
+    watch('server.rb')
+    watch(%r{^(lib)/.*})
+end

Rakefile

@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ end
 
 namespace :server do
   task :dev do
-    %x{ruby server.rb}
-  end
-
-  task :reload do
-    %x{rerun --ignore 'assets/*' --ignore 'public/*' --no-notify 'ruby server.rb'}
+    %x{guard}
   end
 end

config.ru

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+require_relative './server'
+run Sinatra::Application

lib/config.rb

@@ -2,8 +2,14 @@ require 'yaml'
 
 class Config
 
+  DEFAULT_CONFIG = 'data/defaults.yaml'
+
   def initialize(config_path)
-    @data = YAML::load_file(config_path)
+    @data = YAML::load_file(DEFAULT_CONFIG)
+
+    if File.exists?(config_path)
+      @data.merge!(YAML::load_file(config_path))
+    end
   end
 
   def get(key, depth = 0)

server.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ set :public_folder, __dir__ + '/public'
 set :views, settings.root + '/views'
 
 # Load configuration file
-$conf = Config.new(File.join(__dir__, 'data/defaults.yaml'))
+$conf = Config.new(File.join(__dir__, 'data/config.yaml'))
 
 # Initialize logging
 logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)