Alternatives for Pow on windows?

Question

I love pow for mac (http://pow.cx) however I have a few co-workers that are on Windows, is there anything that they can use to have the power of pow?

Prendergast

Answer 1

Sadly, no. Your best bet is to just update the hostname file, but that's not anywhere near as elegant.

Glochidium

Answer 2

I doubt there's anything directly comparable available for Windows. In general, Windows just isn't as friendly to develop ruby applications on. That said, pow seems to be documented very well, so there's probably enough information there to port it to work on WIndows.

Assuming your co-workers can't easily get a Mac or linux machine to develop on, another option might be to run Linux in a VM using something like VMware or VirtualBox.

Subpoena

Yeah, I've been trying to get them to move to Linux. Thanks! – Prendergast