wrapping a sinatra app around a static web site

app.rb

# for those times when you have a static web site but then it turns out you
# need a contact form or some such. 

# just sticking the whole site in public/ gets you most of the way there -- 
# the web server just serves up anything it finds there without calling on
# your app for anything

# but that doesn't work for the default index.html page for paths like
# "/" or "/foo".

# so to catch those, you could use this as the very _last_ route/action in
# your app, as a default/catch-all.

get '/*' do
  path = params[:splat].first
  path = File.join('public', path, 'index.html')
  send_file path
end

# maybe in apache you could just Options +Indexes instead, i haven't tried that :D