Webrick + Erb = Simple Clean Front End

Use webrick to create a front end for you ruby application. I found embedding ErB (rails like templating) makes ruby ui lightweight and easy.

require 'webrick'
include WEBrick
require 'erb'

s = HTTPServer.new( :Port => 80,:DocumentRoot    => Dir::pwd + "/web_docs" )

class SearchServlet < HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
  def do_GET(req, response)
    File.open('web_docs/search.rhtml','r') do |f|
     @template = ERB.new(f.read)
    end
    response.body = @template.result(binding)
    response['Content-Type'] = "text/html"
   end

  end
end

s.mount("/search", SearchServlet)

trap("INT"){
  s.shutdown
}
s.start