Message of The Day App (Sinatra)

The Message of The Day application is meant to illustrate how a web application can interact with files on the computer. The initial version has two features:

1. Display the contents of message-of-the-day.txt whenever a user visits /message.
2. Select one of the lines at random from quotes.txt whenever a user visits /quote.

Running Message of The Day

Install The Required Libraries

To install the libraries required for this application, first run the following command:

$ bundle install

Run The Message of The Day App

Once you've installed the required libraries, run the following command:

$ ruby message_app.rb

To stop your application, press Ctrl+c. That means press the "Control" key and the "c" key at the same time.