Basic C-style web server in Ruby

simple_server.rb

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'socket'
include Socket::Constants

PORT = 8888
HOST = '0.0.0.0'

socket = Socket.new(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
address = Socket.pack_sockaddr_in(PORT, HOST)
socket.bind(address)
socket.listen(5)

puts "Server listening on port #{PORT}..."

loop do
  client, address_info = socket.accept
  #request = client.recvfrom(1024)[0]
  request = client.gets
  STDERR.puts request
  verb, resource = request.split(' ')
  response = resource
  headers = <<-RESP
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: #{response.bytesize}
Connection: close
RESP
  client.print headers
  client.print "\r\n"
  client.print response
  client.close
end