Serve is a small Rack-based web server and rapid prototyping framework for Web applications (specifically Rails apps). Serve is meant to be a lightweight version of the Views part of the Rails MVC. This makes Serve an ideal framework for prototyping Rails applications or creating simple websites. Serve has full support for Rails-style partials and layouts.
We've found an us-ascii/utf-8 incompatibility issue when using utf8 characters in layouts.
FYI, we solved this issue by changing the tilt gem dependency to a branch called "encoding" in the Gemfile. Here you will find it: https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt/tree/encodings
best regards! xavi