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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?

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There is an answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/6379453/… –  Philippe Rathé Nov 28 '11 at 15:46

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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:


The post was written fro Snow Leopard but I had success using Lion too.

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

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Although this solution does work, it is not an answer for the question posed above. This is a common solution that has the disadvantage of requiring an internet connection for your development environment to function. –  Erik Lott Jul 30 '12 at 22:56

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 ?

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