Rails : How to get parallels running with Pow

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I've recently starting using Pow for local Rails application development. I typically use parallels 7 for cross-browser testing. I'm running into an issue where my POW development url - e.g. somesubdomain.domain.dev - is not accessible from the parallels virtual machines.

Has anyone had any luck setting up a pow + parallels combination? Suggestions?

There is an answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6379453/remotely-viewing-web-pages-served-by-pow-cx — Philippe Rathé, Nov 28 '11 at 15:46

Judah · Answer 1 · 2016-07-21T23:52:00.153

Adding my experience to this question even though it is was asked a few months ago. I had a similar problem recently, and although I was never successful accessing my pow url from the windows machine I followed the instructions here and was able to connect to the local app from parallels:

http://fortysevenmedia.com/blog/archives/testing_a_rails_application_in_ie_in_parallels_and_in_leopard/

The post was written for Snow Leopard but I had success using Lion too.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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As someone answered here, http://xip.io/ makes this super easy to do.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Jul 28 '12 at 16:59

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Although this solution does work, it is not an answer for the question posed above. This is a common solution that has the disadvantage of requiring an internet connection for your development environment to function. – Erik Lott Jul 30 '12 at 22:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '11 at 10:17

I had the same issue.

I manage to install the gem powder, who allow me to stop and start pow. https://github.com/Rodreegez/powder

For cross-browser testing, I'm launching the rails server on localhost:3000.

I would like to have a better solution too :-)

Anyone ?

Rails : How to get parallels running with Pow

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