This works under 1.8.7: get "/" do erb :text end __END__ @@text <div id="test"> <h1>If you can read this</h1> <h3>then we're up & running</h3> </div> ******************************************** But running it under 1.9.2-p0 results in this error: No such file or directory - /home/ubuntu/load/<internal:lib/rubygems/views/text.erb Already read through previous posts on Sinatra + 1.9.2 issues, checked google, and didn't find much in either. Did find some suggestions that I manually set the :view path, but that's for external, not inline, templates. Any suggestions? Thanks, Alex