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One liner server command in ruby
Open your terminal, go to your desired directory where you want to run the server and enter the following:
ruby -run -e httpd . -p 5000
It will start a webserver runnning on your machine at port 5000. No extra gem is needed for this to run.
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Using Ruby and especially Rails for years now I never noticed that WEBrick is already on board on every Ruby installation. And to be honest I am not really sure if that makes sense at all. But nice to know, thanks for the article.
I have been using this server whenever I want to share my local file with my peers in same network. It comes handy sometimes. It's never bad thing to have a useful tool.
BTW I'd love to hear about your experience with rails.
Happy coding @sga
You're right, its not a bad thing. It's just my personal preference that software should focus on its purpose. A webserver as part of a language interpreter seems a bit bulky to me.
I have a software development company in Germany. We develop all kinds of software, e.g. marketing, CRM, e-shops and whatever the client needs. Because most of the software has a web frontend these days we focus on Rails development for five or six years now.
What do you do for living? Ruby, too?
I have a software development company in Nepal mostly focused on outsourcing jobs. We focus on Rails development too.