From: "John W. Long" Date: 2007-09-25T15:30:09+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Serve 0.9.0 Released Serve version 0.9.0 has been released! * == What is Serve? Serve is a small Ruby script that makes it easy to start a WEBrick server in any directory. Serve is ideal for HTML prototyping and simple file sharing. If the haml, redcloth, and bluecloth gems are installed serve can handle Haml, Sass, Textile, and Markdown (in addition to HTML). == Usage At a command prompt all you need to type to start serve is: $ serve This will launch a WEBrick server which you can access from any Web browser at the following address: http://localhost:3000 Once the server is going it will output a running log of its activity. To stop the server at any time, type CTRL+C at the command prompt. By default the serve command serves up files from the current directory. To change this behavior, `cd` to the appropriate directory before starting serve. == Advanced Options The serve command automatically binds to 0.0.0.0 (localhost) and uses port 3000 by default. To serve files over a different IP (that is bound to your computer) or port specify those options on the command line: $ serve 4000 # a custom port $ serve 192.168.1.6 # a custom IP $ serve 192.168.1.6:4000 # a custom IP and port == Rails Applications For your convenience if the file "script/server" exists in the current directory the serve command will start that instead of launching a WEBrick server. You can specify the environment that you want to start the server with as an option on the command line: $ serve production # start script/server in production mode == Installation and Setup It is recommended that you install serve via RubyGems: $ sudo gem install serve == License Serve is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) John W. Long. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the link:License.txt file. Enjoy! -- John Long http://wiseheartdesign.com