Rails : How to get parallels running with Pow

Question

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?

Answer 1

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 ?

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.