Sinatra request with RestClient to API in same rack app

api_and_client

#config.ru
...
map "/api" do
	run MyApi
end

map "/" do
	run MyApp
end

#my-app.rb
...
get '/people/?' do
  ## This causes request to this route to time out however if send a request directly to
  ## http://127.0.0.1:9393/api/people then no problem. The API is correct.

  @results = RestClient.get "http://127.0.0.1:9393/api/people", {:accept => :json}
  erb :people
end