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We already have a route to accept GET requests for one path, and return some HTML in the response. We can support additional paths by adding additional routes, one after another.
Here's a workspace with our same Sinatra app from before. 0:00 Notice I made sure to add set bind 0, 0, 0, 0 right after 0:03 the require Sinatra lines so that I can connect to the app from a remote computer. 0:07 We already have a route to accept get requests for the /apple path and 0:13 returns to main HTML in the response. 0:17 We can support additional paths by adding additional routes, one after another. 0:20 So let's go down here to the bottom, 0:25 we'll add another get route for a path of /banana. 0:28 We'll give it a block which will be used to determine Sinatra's response. 0:35 Now let's go up here and make this a level one heading, while I'm thinking about it. 0:41 And we'll do the same here, level one heading. 0:47 Here's a ripe banana, close our heading, and close our string. 0:52 And then we'll set up a third route. 0:59 Also for get request, and we'll give this one a path of /carrot. 1:02 Set up a block. 1:09 Level one heading. 1:13 Here's a crunchy carrot. 1:16 We'll be sure to save that, and then we need to go to the console and run it. 1:26 Ruby produce.rb. 1:31 Now we can go into the preview and reload, and there's our /apple path. 1:35 And now we can change the path from /apple to /banana. 1:42 And a get request for that path will be sent instead. 1:49 When a request comes into a Sinatra app, 1:52 it looks through the routes you've defined one by one from top to bottom. 1:54 The first routes match both the request method, get in this case, 1:59 and the resource path will be chosen, and the accompanying Ruby block will be run. 2:02 So this request will match the GET /banana route in our app, the block for 2:07 that route will be run, and we'll get different HTML in response. 2:11 We can also change the path to /carrot, 2:15 Which will match the third route and run the third block. 2:20 For additional practice you should try adding more get routes to our 2:24 produce.rb app now. 2:27 You can also try returning different HTML strings from the existing routes. 2:29 We'll see you in the next stage where we'll be talking about a Sinatra feature 2:34 that will let you render not just short strings but an entire HTML page. 2:37
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