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.
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.
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.