unless RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /mswin/ && `lighttpd -version 2>/dev/null`.size > 0 puts "lighttpd is not available on your system (or not in your path)" exit 1 end def tail_f(input) loop do line = input.gets yield line if line if input.eof? sleep 1 input.seek(input.tell) end end end config_file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/lighttpd.conf" port = IO.read(config_file).scan(/^server.port\s*=\s*(\d+)/).first rescue 3000 puts "=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:#{port}" if ARGV.first == "-d" puts "=> Configure in config/lighttpd.conf" detach = true else puts "=> Call with -d to detach (requires absolute paths in config/lighttpd.conf)" puts "=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options)" detach = false Process.detach(fork do begin File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/#{RAILS_ENV}.log", 'r') do |log| log.seek(0, IO::SEEK_END) tail_f(log) {|line| puts line} end rescue Exception end exit end) end trap(:INT) {exit} `lighttpd #{!detach ? "-D " : ""}-f #{config_file}`