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

Simplest way possible (thanks Aaron Patterson/n0kada):

ruby -run -e httpd . -p 9090 

Alternate, more complex way:

ruby -r webrick -e "s = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 9090, :DocumentRoot => Dir.pwd); trap('INT') { s.shutdown }; s.start" 

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Even the first command is hard to remember, so I just have this in my .bashrc:

function serve {   port="${1:-3000}"   ruby -run -e httpd . -p $port } 

It serves the current directory on port 3000 by default, but you can also specify the port:

~ $ cd tmp ~/tmp $ serve      # ~/tmp served on port 3000 ~/tmp $ cd ../www ~/www $ serve 5000   # ~/www served on port 5000 

Answer 2

As Aaron Patterson tweeted it out today you can do:

ruby -run -e httpd . -p 5000 

And you can set the bind address as well by adding -b 127.0.0.1

Works with Ruby 1.9.2 and greater.