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Extremely cool and will definitely come in handy.

The annotated source is the best part, though.

Just installed, running my app in it right now. Sweet, very handy, thanks so much.

Question – Does it do any logging anywhere? What should I tail?

The DNS isn’t picking up the .dev, is there anything I can do to look into this further?

SS – Thanks, it’s really quite nice. I was looking for the rails logger first anyway, but I’ll look at the web server logs too.

Gave – I had troubles at first, but my project directory had a capitol letter in it, and when i renamed and re-symlinked, I was able to find my app.dev domain.

A little tangent.

But what tool do you guy at 37S use for screencasting?

Nice! I find myself spread thin among a few applications so this should help ease the setup with getting them up and running.

I’ll give Pow a shot this week post up my thoughts.

Works! Especially great for sites like basecamp where a new subdomain is used for each account registration. The fact that it handles that case is awesome.

I really like the design of that page. Nice work.

Totally awesome! Thank You!

Had it running in 3 minutes (had to log out and back in for DNS ).

This would have saved me HALF of 2005!

i’m speechless. thank you. immensely.

curl get.power.cx | sh

And then pop your root password right in? Are you fucking kidding?

@Wes (other Wes):

If you’re afraid to run:

curl get.power.cx | sh

Then run:

curl get.power.cx | cat

And check the source before you execute it.

Also, this has 37signals behind it. That kind of rules out any kind of intentional evil code. I assume they would not want headlines like “37signals releases new developer product, thousands of developers get their harddisk wiped”.

So, what is the problem again?

I just made my day. Well, actually, you made my year. Pure awesomeness. Thanks so much!

Hi guys,

This looks really convenient. Thanks for sharing!

-Pete

Followed all install instructions. Browser just sits there and spins. Anyone else have trouble getting the server to start?

Bruce, I had similar problem and the log pointed me to updating a couple gems and running bundle install. Worked great after that! Also make sure if you are using rvm that you have an .rvmrc file in the root of your app’s directory referencing the correct version of Ruby.

This isn’t another April Fools joke is it :)

scott,thanks for replying. log doesn’t have any info about gems to update. I already have my .rvmrc file. looks correct. can you let me know which gems it wants updated?

I found it annoying that it takes port 80 over (should add an option on install). Most developers already have something listening on 80. I wrote a little script that will allow you to change the port to whatever you want: https://gist.github.com/910601

Usage is simply: sudo ./pow_port.rb

Simple.

P.S. Make sure you read the warning in the comments.

I really like that annotated source code page. How did you guys build that? Is that a custom creation or is their a tool that I can use to get the same results? I work with climate codes and I would love to be able to provide that kind of documentation.

Thanks for the help Scott, working fine now. Have to wait a few seconds for it to start…

Interesting post….check out my recent post on the 37signals influence on our company:

http://cloudsourcesolutions.com/2011/04/what-weve-learned-from-37signals/?preview=true&preview_id=385&preview_nonce=ed677bb462