Quick Servers in Different Languages
So, I've mentioned simplehttpserver before here, a quick rack script that will allow you to start up a server in your current directory, but there is a way better way in Ruby.
ruby -run -e httpd . -p 9090
If you're a fan of things like dotfiles, check this out: https://github.com/jlembeck/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions#L115
For PHP, you can run
php -S localhost:4000
or, something like this can be added to your dotfiles: https://github.com/jlembeck/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions#L108