See the Sinatra FAQ,
“How do I make my Sinatra app reload on changes?”
First off, in-process code reloading in Ruby is hard and having a
solution that works for every scenario is technically impossible.Which is why we recommend you to do out-of-process reloading.
First you need to install rerun if you haven’t already:
$ gem install rerun
Now if you start your Sinatra app like this:
$ ruby app.rb
All you have to do for reloading is instead do this:
$ rerun 'ruby app.rb'
If you are for instance using rackup, instead do
the following:$ rerun ‘rackup’
You get the idea.
If you still want in-process reloading, check out
Sinatra::Reloader
.