Ruby Web Server One Liner

I was more than delighted to stumble upon this post it describes a ruby one liner that launches a thin web server that serves the current directory.

Ruby web server one liner.

This is the same. Ruby rrack e include rack. That should be true for any of these. This is a wrapper script for launching one of the following an ad hoc http static servers to launch an instant web server on the fly.

Handler thin run builder new run directory new. On osx and linux you almost certainly have python installed so there are no dependencies. Node static is required default is python 2 x or 3 x depends on your environment. It is possible to launch a web server from command line in current directory not only with python one liner but with ruby too.

One note though re. Python3 m http server this will setup a simple web server rooted at your current directory listening on port 8000. Ruby web server one liner. Ruby webrick via un.

Ruby console server one liner. Serve the current directory on ruby 1 9 2 you can do the following for current directory. With python 2 4 it is a simple one liner. Ruby run ehttpd.

For example if you have a file tests index html it will load index html if you go to test but will treat relative paths as if they were coming from. Today when developing some more client side code for dubjoy i again had the need of quickly loading a html file through a web server. Python m simplehttpserver in python 3 it becomes even shorter. P8000 python 2 x offers a similar way.

Python m simplehttpserver 8000.