Occasionally, when building a website that will rely on a platform server (Github, Gitlab, Heroku etc.) it can be a burden to check the way that the pages interact with each other. An example of this I encountered was whilst building my own portfolio website. The pages are static html. I use the following command which helps, starting up a local host server:

ruby -run -e httpd -- -p 5000 .

Quick explanation of how it works:

• ruby: This invokes the Ruby interpreter.

• -run: Uses Ruby’s command-line options to enable the run library, which contains simple utilities like a basic HTTP server.

• -e httpd: Executes the httpd command (built-in web server) directly from Ruby’s standard library.

• –: Indicates the end of command-line options, ensuring the remaining arguments are passed to the httpd server.

• -p 5000: Specifies the port number (5000 in this case) on which the server should run. You can change this to any other available port if you prefer.

• .: Specifies the current directory as the root directory to be served.