I’ve grown terribly tired of using heel; it has grown bloated and now it’s impossible to run it due to incompatibilities with recent libraries…
So I’ve written a replacement called adsf - A Dead Simple Fileserver. It works mostly like heel, but does not have that (sometimes annoying) browser-launching feature, (never really useful) directory listing support, and (always frustrating) syntax highlighting.
You can install adsf using RubyGems, like this:
> sudo gem install adsf
And using it is simple, too:
> adsf # launches with . as web root at port 3000 > adsf -r output # launches with ./output as web root > adsf -H thin # launches with the Thin handler > adsf -p 8080 # launches at port 8080 instead of 3000
It goes without saying that it is perfect in combination with nanoc. Enjoy!