Pow, the latest project to come out ofRuby on Railscreators37signals, is a server for developing Rails & Rack applications on OS X that requires no configuration and can be set up and going in less than a minute.
Other products such asPhusion Passengerhave existed to make developing multiple Rails apps simultaneously easier, but they require a fair bit of configuration before you can get started on real work.
Pow was created by 37signals to get rid of the hassle that setting up a Rails development environment for every new developer or new computer in the company had become. Now, they say, the process only takes a few minutes.
Apps running under Pow use a hostname based on the symlink you choose to set them up with and the extension .dev, a fairly standard convention on local development servers.
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Pow is an open source MIT licensed project. Check out37signals’ screencastto see just how little is involved in setting Pow up.
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