Pow and Rails 2.3.x apps
Pow has just been released by 37signals:
Knock Out Rails & Rack Apps Like a Superhero.
Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute.
Usually, there’s no configuration needed at all, but in order to get my old Rails 2.3.x apps running, I needed to “rackup” all of these. Following the Rails Guides instructions, I had to create a config.ru file with the following contents:
# RAILS_ROOT/config.ru
require "config/environment"
use Rails::Rack::LogTailer
use Rails::Rack::Static
run ActionController::Dispatcher.new
Then I was good to go.
Unless…
When I tried to symlink the app in the ~/.pow directory - as described on the pow homepage - I got the following error:
~/.pow $ ln -s /path/to/myapp
ln: ./: File exists
But that was easy. I just had to add the name of the symlink explicitly:
~/.pow $ ln -s /path/to/myapp myapp
Now, I was really up and running with my Rails 2.3.x apps and pow. Bye bye Passenger.
(Be sure to have a look at the documentation. It’s the best source code documentation I’ve ever seen.)
