Given you’re a professional website designer and would like to work on some wonderful project. This project might be about designing a new website with a blog and a shop for one of your favourite customers. To get involved in this project, she asked you to design a mock-up with your ideas first and send it to her. In this article I’m going to show you how you can give away your mock-up in an easy manner without setting up a full-blown web server stack.
Some of my rubygems – e.g. proxy_pac_rb – either need a backing HTTP(S)-server for their tests or interact with some external web services via HTTP/HTTPS. To mock external services you can either use VCR, webmock or just plain Webrick. To serve data for your tests via HTTP(S), you can use Webrick as well. As Webrick is part of ruby core and is sufficient for both use cases, this article only describes ways to run a Webrick-HTTP(S)-server to back your test suite.
