Can I install Pow on my Ubuntu?

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I find Pow great on my Mac. It makes the Rails dev environment setup easy. Can I install it on my Ubuntu? I can't find any info about it. If not, is there anything like it for Linux?

Duo answered 18/4, 2011 at 3:51 Comment(0)

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Pow (specifically) cannot be installed on anything except a Mac at this time. It uses plists for launching and managing the firewall, and uses some OS X /etc/resolver trickery to resolve the domain names. See this post for a bit more detail.

Fitful answered 18/4, 2011 at 4:27 Comment(3)

Any Pow alternative exist? – Metts 31/5, 2011 at 14:57

Yup. I'm looking for an alternative also. I'm trying thin server now, but pow is really zero-configuration stuff. – Jerejereld 8/7, 2011 at 16:59

@Dmitry, @goo - You're looking for prax. See @Richard Smith's post below for link. – Marmalade 30/9, 2013 at 17:59

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There is now a linux equivalent: prax

Pede answered 22/7, 2013 at 12:7 Comment(2)

Chrome has stopped support prax :( – Trudy 21/4, 2015 at 6:8

@Trudy dnsmasq fixed it again – Gravelly 30/12, 2016 at 17:13

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Pow (specifically) cannot be installed on anything except a Mac at this time. It uses plists for launching and managing the firewall, and uses some OS X /etc/resolver trickery to resolve the domain names. See this post for a bit more detail.

Fitful answered 18/4, 2011 at 4:27 Comment(3)

Any Pow alternative exist? – Metts 31/5, 2011 at 14:57

Yup. I'm looking for an alternative also. I'm trying thin server now, but pow is really zero-configuration stuff. – Jerejereld 8/7, 2011 at 16:59

@Dmitry, @goo - You're looking for prax. See @Richard Smith's post below for link. – Marmalade 30/9, 2013 at 17:59

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I was searching for the same thing and I found hoof.

Gravelly answered 19/7, 2011 at 18:55 Comment(1)

discontinued. Author recomends Prax now – Winser 18/2, 2021 at 15:36

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I've been using hoof and it works, but its definitely a bit rough around the edges.

There is a Linux fork of Pow that looks interesting. I haven't tried it for myself yet but I'm hoping that it will get pushed upstream into the main Pow code.

Musquash answered 12/9, 2011 at 20:29 Comment(2)

Sadly it won't happen: since Pow authors have no interests into a Linux port, it was merely a hack in the coffeescript code, plus a few dnsmasq and resvolconf conf. It used to work but it failed on me a few weeks ago. Since then i've been working on a pure ruby alternative: github.com/ysbaddaden/prax which still has a long way to go. – Fransis 20/8, 2012 at 9:37

It's sad that they have no interest in supporting Linux but great to hear you're working on an alternative. I'll keep my eye on prax. – Musquash 20/8, 2012 at 17:46

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How about using passenger standalone?

Universalist answered 14/7, 2011 at 23:31 Comment(0)

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I have implemented BAM! Heavily inspired by pow, BAM! goes further by supporting not only ruby/rack applications, but any Procfile-based application. Also, BAM! is planned to support both Linux and Mac OS X. Please, give it a try!

https://github.com/jweslley/bam

Gamboge answered 22/5, 2015 at 15:28 Comment(0)

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