A one-line web server in Ruby
Prodded by a tweet, here's how to serve a directory in one line of Ruby:
ruby -rwebrick -e'WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 3000, :DocumentRoot => Dir.pwd).start'Handy for sharing files at a conference, for example.
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