diff --git a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
index cec60ee780..735008c1ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	The HTTP daemon command-line that will be executed.
 	Command-line options may be specified here, and the
 	configuration file will be added at the end of the command-line.
-	Currently, lighttpd and apache2 are the only supported servers.
+	Currently lighttpd, apache2 and webrick are supported.
 	(Default: lighttpd)
 
 -m|--module-path::
diff --git a/git-instaweb.sh b/git-instaweb.sh
index 8eb7f3ed1a..2e4eeccace 100755
--- a/git-instaweb.sh
+++ b/git-instaweb.sh
@@ -139,6 +139,43 @@ GIT_DIR="$fqgitdir"
 export GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_DIR
 
 
+webrick_conf () {
+	# generate a standalone server script in $fqgitdir/gitweb.
+	cat >"$fqgitdir/gitweb/$httpd.rb" <<EOF
+require 'webrick'
+require 'yaml'
+options = YAML::load_file(ARGV[0])
+options[:StartCallback] = proc do
+  File.open(options[:PidFile],"w") do |f|
+    f.puts Process.pid
+  end
+end
+options[:ServerType] = WEBrick::Daemon
+server = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(options)
+['INT', 'TERM'].each do |signal|
+  trap(signal) {server.shutdown}
+end
+server.start
+EOF
+	# generate a shell script to invoke the above ruby script,
+	# which assumes _ruby_ is in the user's $PATH. that's _one_
+	# portable way to run ruby, which could be installed anywhere,
+	# really.
+	cat >"$fqgitdir/gitweb/$httpd" <<EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+exec ruby "$fqgitdir/gitweb/$httpd.rb" \$*
+EOF
+	chmod +x "$fqgitdir/gitweb/$httpd"
+
+	cat >"$conf" <<EOF
+:Port: $port
+:DocumentRoot: "$fqgitdir/gitweb"
+:DirectoryIndex: ["gitweb.cgi"]
+:PidFile: "$fqgitdir/pid"
+EOF
+	test "$local" = true && echo ':BindAddress: "127.0.0.1"' >> "$conf"
+}
+
 lighttpd_conf () {
 	cat > "$conf" <<EOF
 server.document-root = "$fqgitdir/gitweb"
@@ -239,6 +276,9 @@ case "$httpd" in
 *apache2*)
 	apache2_conf
 	;;
+webrick)
+	webrick_conf
+	;;
 *)
 	echo "Unknown httpd specified: $httpd"
 	exit 1