Can I install Pow on my Ubuntu?

Question

I find Pow great on my Mac. It makes the Rails dev environment setup easy. Can I install it on my Ubuntu? I can't find any info about it. If not, is there anything like it for Linux?

Answer 1

There is now a linux equivalent: prax

Answer 2

Pow (specifically) cannot be installed on anything except a Mac at this time. It uses plists for launching and managing the firewall, and uses some OS X /etc/resolver trickery to resolve the domain names. See this post for a bit more detail.

Answer 3

I was searching for the same thing and I found hoof.

Answer 4

I've been using hoof and it works, but its definitely a bit rough around the edges.

There is a Linux fork of Pow that looks interesting. I haven't tried it for myself yet but I'm hoping that it will get pushed upstream into the main Pow code.