By popular demand, here's a screencast of a basic web server engine based on Ruby. Source by Suresh Mahadevan. require 'thread' require 'socket' class RequestHandler def initialize(session) @session = session end def process while @session.gets.chop.length != 0 end @session.puts "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" @session.puts "content-type: text/html" @session.puts "" @session.puts "
Hello World " @session.close end end server = TCPServer.new("0.0.0.0", "8888") while (session = server.accept) Thread.new(session) do |newSession| RequestHandler.new(newSession).process end end