Puma-dev - an alternative to Pow

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Why puma-dev

puma-dev[1] is a tool to manage rack apps in development with puma.

If you need the following features, you have to use puma-dev instead of pow:

  • Websockets or ActionCable in Rails 5
  • Zero-config HTTPs support to your development environment.

Installation

  • Remove your pow first $ curl get.pow.cx/uninstall.sh | sh
  • Install via Homebrew: brew install puma/puma/puma-dev
  • sudo puma-dev -setup to configure DNS settings as root.
  • Run puma-dev -install to configure puma-dev and run it in the background on ports both 80 and 443. This step requires root permission again to install certificates for HTTPs.

Pro tips

  • Just move or rename your old ~/.pow directory to ~/.puma-dev
  • Run puma-dev link in the rack app directory then it will generate the link automatically

  1. https://github.com/puma/puma-dev ↩︎