the minimal Ruby equivalent would be ruby -run -ehttpd . Here's a handy snippet for bashrc: function S { ruby -run -ehttpd . -p${1-8080} # def

the minimal Ruby equivalent would be ruby -run -ehttpd . Here's a handy snippet for bashrc: function S { ruby -run -ehttpd . -p${1-8080} # default to port 8080 unless given as parameter }