If I remembered right, the command below used to be the most voted one on commandlinefu.com:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
the “SimpleHTTPServer” module is written in python and it maybe called “the python way”, but that’s not our topic today. what we really want to do here is just making a ruby equivalent for this popular command, using rack.
first, make sure you have rack gem installed on your system (if you’ve installed rails 2.x before, you may already have it):
$ sudo gem install rack
confirm installation (Rack 1.0 should also work for our example):
$ rackup --version
Rack 1.1
Rack 1.1
alright, preparation is done, let’s start cooking. only a rackup file will be sufficient, for consistency, let’s just call it simple_http_server.ru .
#!/usr/bin/env rackup
#\ -E deployment
use Rack::ContentLength
app = Rack::Directory.new Dir.pwd
run app
#\ -E deployment
use Rack::ContentLength
app = Rack::Directory.new Dir.pwd
run app
alimer: thank you !...
cooldoger: nice...
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