serve current directory from command line

Question

could someone give me a hint, howto serve the current directory from command line with ruby? it would be great, if i can have some system wide configuration (e.g. mime-types) and simply launch it from every directory.

Answer 1

Web Server in 1 line

This may or may not be quite what you want but it's so cool that I just had to share it.

I've used this in the past to serve the file system. Perhaps you could modify it or just accept that it serves everything.

ruby -rsocket -e 's=TCPServer.new(5**5);loop{_=s.accept;_<<"HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\r\n#{File.read(_.gets.split[1])rescue nil}";_.close}'

I found it here

Chris

Answer 2

I've never seen anything as compact as

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

for Ruby, Chris' answer shows up several times on Google.

Answer 3

    require 'webrick'
include WEBrick

s = HTTPServer.new(:Port => 9090,
               :DocumentRoot => Dir::pwd + "/htdocs")
trap("INT"){ s.shutdown }
s.start