Quickly fire up nginx to serve any directory

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

CONF_FILE = '/tmp/server.nginx.conf'
PORT = 8080

NGINX_CONF = <<-eos
worker_processes  1;
events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
  log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent';
  error_log    /dev/stderr;
  access_log   /dev/stdout main;

  types {
      text/html                             html htm shtml;
      text/css                              css;
      text/xml                              xml;
      image/gif                             gif;
      image/jpeg                            jpeg jpg;
      application/x-javascript              js;
      application/atom+xml                  atom;
      application/rss+xml                   rss;

      text/mathml                           mml;
      text/plain                            txt;
      text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor      jad;
      text/vnd.wap.wml                      wml;
      text/x-component                      htc;

      image/png                             png;
      image/tiff                            tif tiff;
      image/vnd.wap.wbmp                    wbmp;
      image/x-icon                          ico;
      image/x-jng                           jng;
      image/x-ms-bmp                        bmp;
      image/svg+xml                         svg svgz;
      image/webp                            webp;

      application/java-archive              jar war ear;
      application/mac-binhex40              hqx;
      application/msword                    doc;
      application/pdf                       pdf;
      application/postscript                ps eps ai;
      application/rtf                       rtf;
      application/vnd.ms-excel              xls;
      application/vnd.ms-powerpoint         ppt;
      application/vnd.wap.wmlc              wmlc;
      application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml  kml;
      application/vnd.google-earth.kmz      kmz;
      application/x-7z-compressed           7z;
      application/x-cocoa                   cco;
      application/x-java-archive-diff       jardiff;
      application/x-java-jnlp-file          jnlp;
      application/x-makeself                run;
      application/x-perl                    pl pm;
      application/x-pilot                   prc pdb;
      application/x-rar-compressed          rar;
      application/x-redhat-package-manager  rpm;
      application/x-sea                     sea;
      application/x-shockwave-flash         swf;
      application/x-stuffit                 sit;
      application/x-tcl                     tcl tk;
      application/x-x509-ca-cert            der pem crt;
      application/x-xpinstall               xpi;
      application/xhtml+xml                 xhtml;
      application/zip                       zip;

      application/octet-stream              bin exe dll;
      application/octet-stream              deb;
      application/octet-stream              dmg;
      application/octet-stream              eot;
      application/octet-stream              iso img;
      application/octet-stream              msi msp msm;

      audio/midi                            mid midi kar;
      audio/mpeg                            mp3;
      audio/ogg                             ogg;
      audio/x-m4a                           m4a;
      audio/x-realaudio                     ra;

      video/3gpp                            3gpp 3gp;
      video/mp4                             mp4;
      video/mpeg                            mpeg mpg;
      video/quicktime                       mov;
      video/webm                            webm;
      video/x-flv                           flv;
      video/x-m4v                           m4v;
      video/x-mng                           mng;
      video/x-ms-asf                        asx asf;
      video/x-ms-wmv                        wmv;
      video/x-msvideo                       avi;
  }

  default_type  application/octet-stream;
  sendfile        on;
  keepalive_timeout  65;
  gzip  on;
  server {
    listen       #{PORT};
    server_name  localhost;
    location / {
      root   #{Dir.getwd};
      index  index.html index.htm;
    }
  }
}
daemon off;
eos

File.open(CONF_FILE, "w") {|f| f.write NGINX_CONF }

puts "nginx configuration written to #{CONF_FILE}"
puts "nginx serving at http://localhost:#{PORT}/"

system "nginx -c #{CONF_FILE}"