this sinatra app is to test out some simple web services for simple web sites.

functions like 'contact-us' and 'subscribe'

maybe someday, i'll make it into a gem. maybe.

###development i use tmuxinator and sin.yml is the tmuxinator config file for me. i also rely on tux readme](https://github.com/cldwalker/tux) for figuring things out.

>> post '/subscribe', { :email => 'john.doe@gmail.org' }.to_json

it's also easy to use curl for testing

$ curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"email":"john.doe@xample.com"}' http://localhost:9393/subscribe

###configuration copy example.config.yml to config.yml and fill in your variables. tests will fail if you don't.

###requests POST /subscribe - expects 'email'

POST /contact-us - expects 'name', 'email' and 'message'

###responses success: 200 - returns the email address error: 400 - returns any errors for display

###some links

these articles were helpful in the creation of this code. i also made use of this book: Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails by Paul Dix even though i'm not using rails.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9855656/how-to-submit-a-form-using-javascript

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4166776/ajax-form-submit

http://ghickman.co.uk/2010/09/26/creating-a-contact-page-for-jekyll-with-sinatra.html

http://vitobotta.com/sinatra-contact-form-jekyll/

http://sinatra-book.gittr.com/

http://www.speakingcode.com/2013/01/29/build-a-webservice-with-json-using-ruby-and-sinatra/