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?

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '13 at 12:07

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There is now a linux equivalent: prax

answered Jul 22 '13 at 12:07

Rik Smith-Unna

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Chrome has stopped support prax :( – RAJ Apr 21 '15 at 06:08
@RAJ dnsmasq fixed it again – Tijn Dec 30 '16 at 17:13

Michelle Tilley · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-18T15:21:46.070

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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.

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 04:27

Michelle Tilley

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Any `Pow` alternative exist? – Dmitry Polushkin May 31 '11 at 14:57
Yup. I'm looking for an alternative also. I'm trying thin server now, but pow is really zero-configuration stuff. – gcstr Jul 08 '11 at 16:59
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@Dmitry, @goo - You're looking for `prax`. See @Richard Smith's post below for link. – user456584 Sep 30 '13 at 17:59

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 19 '12 at 09:28

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

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answered Jul 19 '11 at 18:55

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[discontinued. Author recomends Prax now](https://github.com/pyromaniac/hoof/#sorry-guys-the-project-is-not-maintained-anymore-but-good-news-there-is-githubcomysbaddadenprax--) – MegaTux Feb 18 '21 at 15:36

score 9 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 12 '11 at 20:29

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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.

answered Sep 12 '11 at 20:29

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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: https://github.com/ysbaddaden/prax which still has a long way to go. – Julien Portalier Aug 20 '12 at 09:37
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](https://github.com/ysbaddaden/prax). – aNoble Aug 20 '12 at 17:46

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 15 '11 at 05:48

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How about using passenger standalone?

edited Jul 15 '11 at 05:48

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answered Jul 14 '11 at 23:31

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 22 '15 at 15:28

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

Can I install Pow on my Ubuntu?

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