How to serve static files with POW

README.md

Problem

You wanna serve up static files, but are bored by the usual trick of:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This is pretty simple but why type this every time? Let's use Pow for some zero-effort web serving. If you have Pow already set up, then just drop the provided config.ru file into the root of your static files. Then link your directory into ~/.pow so Pow can see it and that's it!

Let's say you have a directory with mockups you wanna show people, they are in ~/Dropbox/Mockups/ then you might do this:

cd ~/Dropbox/Mockups/fancy_new_design/
wget https://raw.github.com/gist/3339169/7ae9f9e8eb1b6cd91fbf651641fa823c25622174/config.ru
cd ~/.pow
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Mockups/fancy_new_design .

Then you can marvel at your creation

Have fun!

config.ru

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

map "/" do
    use Rack::Static, 
      :urls => [""], :root => File.expand_path('.'), :index => 'index.html'
    run lambda {|*|}
end