Implemented workaround for Sinatra 'bug' that prevented start of rest.rb on clean Windows install.

See workaround at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17334734/how-do-i-get-sinatra-to-work-with-httpclient
And related issue related to Sinatra at: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/881
Removed unnecessary semi colons at end of function definitions
Merge pull request #1 from ryankscott/bradley

Changes to make rest.rb run on Windows