I recently came across the Heel RubyGem. To quote the RDoc page, “Heel is a small static web server for use when you need a quick web server for a directory. Once the server is running, heel will use launchy to open your browser at the URL of your document root.” It uses Thin as a webserver
It’s just nice to, for example, launch Heel in your system’s rubygems directory so you can easily browse around. You can view ruby files with syntax highlighting (using coderay). Here’s a sample ruby file.. as you can see, it’s nicely done:
I was just looking the Thin webserver and came across this. It’s been handy so far.