This website has gotten many shapes and forms, in both contents and design. I’ve started from a custom PHP CMS (good ol’ PHP3 era), and went to the WordPress bandwagon, and then back to a custom hand made version. When I went back to own my own code and content, I decided that having a CMS or blog engine wasn’t worth the effort. I looked at static websites generators (SSG), and made the choice of using Jekyll. I was a...

Occasionally, I find myself in need for a basic HTTP server that will render some static content (HTML, CSS, images,..), no complex installation, only build and launch. As I am a huge Ruby fan, I was wondering how can I achieve this in the simplest way possible with plain Ruby. What we will build A basic HTTP server, serving a static HTML file. The Install process should be as small as possible, and launching the server should be fast...