From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T17:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Write webpages in Ruby without Rails? - Newb Question

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:53:37AM +0900, Todd Benson wrote:
> 
> As far as I can tell, Mongrel knows how to feed a web server( like
> Apache), but is not necessarily a complete web server itself.
> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, because I can't seem to find any
> straight example of somebody just using Mongrel with Ruby by
> themselves to serve pages!

You might want to give heel a try, that's pretty much what it is, mongrel with
some mime-type sugar and nice directory listings.

    % sudo gem install heel
    % heel
    ** Signals ready.  TERM => stop.  USR2 => restart.  INT => stop (no restart).
    ** heel running at http://127.0.0.1:4331 with document root /home/jeremy/proj
    ** Use Ctrl-C to stop.
    ** Launching your browser...
    127.0.0.1 - - [07/Nov/2007:00:58:17 MST] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 46615
    127.0.0.1 - - [07/Nov/2007:00:58:17 MST] "GET /icons/folder.png HTTP/1.1" 200 537
    127.0.0.1 - - [07/Nov/2007:00:58:17 MST] "GET /icons/application.png HTTP/1.1" 200 464

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org