Ruby Web Server One Liner

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.

Ruby web server one liner.

Ruby webrick via un. P8000 python 2 x offers a similar way. Node static is required default is python 2 x or 3 x depends on your environment. That should be true for any of these.

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. With python 2 4 it is a simple one liner. Python m simplehttpserver in python 3 it becomes even shorter. Ruby rrack e include rack.

This server does funky things with relative paths. Ruby run ehttpd. 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. Python m simplehttpserver 8000.

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

Handler thin run builder new run directory new. Sometimes you just want to have a small web server that serves files to test something. Serve the current directory on ruby 1 9 2 you can do the following for current directory. It is possible to launch a web server from command line in current directory not only with python one liner but with ruby too.

Ruby web server one liner.