Create basic Web Server in Ruby (using WEBrick)

web-server.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "webrick"

=begin
    WEBrick is a Ruby library that makes it easy to build an HTTP server with Ruby. 
    It comes with most installations of Ruby by default (it’s part of the standard library), 
    so you can usually create a basic web/HTTP server with only several lines of code.
    
    The following code creates a generic WEBrick server on the local machine on port 1234, 
    shuts the server down if the process is interrupted (often done with Ctrl+C).

    This example lets you call the URL's: "add" and "subtract" and pass through arguments to them

    Example usage: 
        http://localhost:1234/ (this will show the specified error message)
        http://localhost:1234/add?a=10&b=10 
        http://localhost:1234/subtract?a=10&b=9
=end

class MyNormalClass
    def self.add (a, b)
        a.to_i + b.to_i
    end
    
    def self.subtract (a, b)
        a.to_i - b.to_i
    end
end

class MyServlet < WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
    def do_GET (request, response)
        if request.query["a"] && request.query["b"]
            a = request.query["a"]
            b = request.query["b"]
            response.status = 200
            response.content_type = "text/plain"
            result = nil
            
            case request.path
                when "/add"
                    result = MyNormalClass.add(a, b)
                when "/subtract"
                    result = MyNormalClass.subtract(a, b)
                else
                    result = "No such method"
            end
            
            response.body = result.to_s + "\n"
        else
            response.status = 200
            response.body = "You did not provide the correct parameters"
        end
    end
end

server = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 1234)

server.mount "/", MyServlet

trap("INT") {
    server.shutdown
}

server.start

Thanks for this example.

We were trying to use this code with ajax, just in case someone get this error:

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

This lines at the beginning of the do_GET method will fix it:

response.header['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
response.header['Access-Control-Request-Method'] = '*'

Also if it's needed the ajax call should have url: 'http://127.0.0.1:port' not 'http://localhost:port'

Hope this can help someone.

good example!

We were trying to use this code with ajax, just in case someone get this error:

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

This lines at the beginning of the do_GET method will fix it:

response.header['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
response.header['Access-Control-Request-Method'] = '*'

Also if it's needed the ajax call should have url: 'http://127.0.0.1:port' not 'http://localhost:port'

Hope this can help someone.

It did, thanks!