Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and lead developer of the Merb project. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and a core contributor to DataMapper. He contributes to many open source projects, like Rubinius and Johnson, and works on some he created himself, like Thor.
@charlmatthee fixed!
Webrick Anywhere
August 6th, 2007
I’ve lately found myself frequently in a situation where I had a directory structure that I wanted to be able to easily browse like a server. One common reason for me was a desire to browse work I was doing on my Mac on Parallels.
Rails uses Webrick to quickly mount its directory structure, and since my needs were very lightweight, I decided to investigate how I could set up webrick to mount a directory structure on a particular port. The result: a small script called server.rb which you can drop into any folder and call via ruby server.rb [PORT]. It’ll default to port 2000.
The code is almost entirely the example code from the Webrick library, but there are a few modification. Bon Apetit!
Ken, Posted September 9, 2007, 12:49 am
Is webrick still in business? I can’t find them on line.
Ken
Patrick, Posted September 20, 2007, 4:18 pm
Ditto here.
webrick.org seems to be offline.
Ben Schwarz, Posted September 21, 2007, 8:10 am
I just wrote a post last night that does the same thing with lighty.
You might want to consider using that being that’ll be quicker than web brick. http://germanforblack.com/how-to-use-lighttpd-to-serve-a-static-site-for-development
Jesper Rønn-Jensen, Posted October 8, 2007, 7:09 am
Thanks for the tip, Yehuda.
How do I set up webrick to serve jsp pages as static HTML? I need to append a http header to the page webrick sends to the browser to force the browser to show it as html.
Any help appreciated
/Jesper