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Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by iSnow » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 1:15 PM UTC

Evbn wrote: post #55

What is a Rack app?

http://rack.github.com/ - basically a Rails adapter for a webserver.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by bennyfreshness » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 1:58 PM UTC

I already have Pow installed but its asking me to install again. Will it conflict w/ my existing install and configuration if I reinstall Pow through Anvil?

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by D3 » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

Wait, what? So instead of typing file:///home/username/site/index.html this program lets you type http://site.dev? If there was ever undeniable proof that Mac users are clinically retarded...

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by Evbn » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #56

Note that .dev is one of the new TLD's being handed out[1]. I also used .dev as my local environment and switched them all over to .local a while ago. .local[2] was specifically set aside just for this task, and is recognized as a local address by the major browsers (instead of .dev, which often results in a search hit). [1] http://www.newgtldsite.com/dot-dev-tld-domain-name-extension... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Where did the .dev fad come from? Why is the web being taken over by folks who don't try to begin to understand how the internet works?

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by Evbn » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 4:06 PM UTC

elyasali wrote: post #60

mintplant wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so? I'm honestly curious.

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...

Thx. I think Apple had a famous one too.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by Evbn » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 4:07 PM UTC

D3 wrote: post #63

Wait, what? So instead of typing file:///home/username/site/index.html this program lets you type http://site.dev ? If there was ever undeniable proof that Mac users are clinically retarded...

Go learn about Cross-domain origin policies and then come back.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by elliottkember » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 4:12 PM UTC

D3 wrote: post #63

Wait, what? So instead of typing file:///home/username/site/index.html this program lets you type http://site.dev ? If there was ever undeniable proof that Mac users are clinically retarded...

Subdomains. Rails apps. Multiple apps running at the same time together. There are a few reasons this is useful. Please be more constructive with your feedback.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by Evbn » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC

rehashed wrote: post #18

themanr wrote: post #16

Does anyone know why pow uses the .dev tld rather than .test? .test is reserved for local testing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test

I was also confused at the choice of default. Fortunately you can update your config to support any TLD: http://pow.cx/manual#section_3.1

Really, the whole manual is published in engraved-in-stone visual style? That is enough to convince me not to let this software run on my machine, especially not with admin privileges.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by tomjakubowski » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 6:50 PM UTC

Evbn wrote: post #68

rehashed wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also confused at the choice of default. Fortunately you can update your config to support any TLD: http://pow.cx/manual#section_3.1

Really, the whole manual is published in engraved-in-stone visual style? That is enough to convince me not to let this software run on my machine, especially not with admin privileges.

Why would does that convince you that this software shouldn't have admin privileges on your machine? It seems awfully arbitrary to me.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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Post by kenips » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 11:47 PM UTC

Pow is great - except when you need to fall back on debugging multiple apps. Even with powder it's flaky at best.