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.

written by
Craig
published
11 Apr 2010

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