nomatteus/ruby-web-server

Ruby Web Server

Overview

Very simple Ruby-based webserver. Will read a file (index.html) and output the contents, along with the necessary headers.

Note: This is a project for learning, not practical use.

Pre-requisites

• Ruby 1.8.7+ (not doing anything too complicated here)

How to Run

Start server with:

ruby server.rb

Then visit this in your browser:

http://localhost:2345

or curl:

curl -i http://localhost:2345

TO DO

• Allow port to be set as a parameter.
• Handle different file types (jpg, png, gif, zip)

References

• HTTP Made Really Easy - A Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 [w3.org]
• Pragmatic Programmers Ruby 1.9 Socket Library Appendix [free supplement to "pickaxe"]
• nweb: a tiny, safe Web server (static pages only) [Web server in 200 lines of code (C)]