# Heel 0.5.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732 "2007-11-20T08:05:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732/1 "2007-11-20T08:05:57Z")

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heel version 0.5.0 has been released.

[http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/heel/](http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/heel/)

Heel is a mongrel based web server to quickly and easily serve up the  
contents  
of a directory as webpages. And to make things even easier it launches  
your  
browser for you so no cut and paste necessary.

Beyond just serving up webpages, heel uses an ERB template and famfamfam  
icons  
to create useful index pages. It also performas syntax highlighting on  
source  
code files using coderay.

{{ Changelog for Version 0.5.0 }}

== Version 0.5.0 - 2007-11-19

- Add in code highlighting support via coderay

- extract CSS files to a resource

- increase test coverage

- add in additional error condition reporting

enjoy,

-jeremy

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732/2 "2007-11-21T01:05:19Z")

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Jeremy H. wrote:

> And to make things even easier it launches your  
> browser for you

Is this behavior available separately? I had been thinking  
of making a GEM for it to use with local-only Camping apps.  
It should open a new tab on an existing browser if possible.

I have C code fragments for Unix (Netscape X-properties API),  
Windows (several forms) and Msc OS/X, but haven’t integrated  
them under one API.

Clifford H…

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732/3 "2007-11-21T03:37:18Z")

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On Nov 20, 7:05 pm, Clifford H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> them under one API.  
> Launchy.

Speaking of which, Jeremy, what’s the status of that?

T.

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 8:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732/4 "2007-11-22T08:03:57Z")

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:05:00AM +0900, Clifford H. wrote:

> Jeremy H. wrote:
> 
> > And to make things even easier it launches your  
> > browser for you
> 
> Is this behavior available separately? I had been thinking  
> of making a GEM for it to use with local-only Camping apps.  
> It should open a new tab on an existing browser if possible.  
> I have C code fragments for Unix (Netscape X-properties API),  
> Windows (several forms) and Msc OS/X, but haven’t integrated  
> them under one API.

gem install launchy

Currently it only supports launching browsers. That will be changing in  
the near future.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heel-0-5-0-released/120732/5 "2007-11-22T08:02:11Z")

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:36:43AM +0900, Trans wrote:

> > I have C code fragments for Unix (Netscape X-properties API),  
> > Windows (several forms) and Msc OS/X, but haven’t integrated  
> > them under one API.
> 
> Launchy.
> 
> Speaking of which, Jeremy, what’s the status of that?

Searching for the time to rewrite the guts so that it can support more  
than just browsers for now. I may get to some of it this weekend.

enjoy,

-jeremy