From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T23:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Serve 0.9.0 Released

On 9/25/07, John W. Long <johnwlong2000@gmail.com> wrote:
> Serve version 0.9.0 has been released!
>
> * <http://serve.rubyforge.org>
>
> == 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).
>

Take a look at the "launchy" gem. It can be used to start up the
default web browser and point it to your WEBrick instance. Just
another nicety for the user.

Blessings,
TwP