Heel is a small static web server for use when you need a quick web server for a directory. Once the server is running, heel will use launchy to open your browser at the URL of your document root. Heel is built using Rack and Thin % heel >> Thin web server (v1.2.8 codename Black Keys) >> Maximum connections set to 1024 >> Listening on 0.0.0.0:4331, CTRL+C to stop Launching your browser... Or run it in the background % heel --daemonize Created /Users/jeremy/.heel heel's PID (/Users/jeremy/.heel/heel.pid) and log file (/Users/jeremy/.heel/heel.log) are stored here Launching your browser at http://0.0.0.0:4331/ % heel --kill Sending TERM to process 3304 Done.