I love this. You simply create a symlink to your app, and boom, the app works at nameofthesymlink.dev. Even after a system restart. And pow is clever enough to only start workers if the app is accessed and shut them down when idle.
This is a blessing if you usually need multiple local apps running.
It also means you can now elegantly use local ruby webapps as personal desktop applications. Say you'd like to build a simple journal or expenses app to use on your desktop for personal use. You can now quickly build it with - say - Sinatra, Datamapper and SQLite. And no need to launch or quit it. Beautiful.
By the way, I didn't completely understand why I would use it instead of Thin until I had it running and had read http://pow.cx/manual.html. Maybe the mechanism I described in the first paragraph of the grandparent should be more prominently and clearly communicated? Maybe that's part of what you meant with the first two paragraphs under "Pow prevails over the forces of evil.", but in that case I think they could be more specific. But maybe that's just me.
Seriously, dude, nobody is out to get you. I'm glad you made Pow. Pow looks awesome. I don't control what gets voted to the top of the page, and I'm probably no happier than you are about the sprawling nerdwar that resulted.
Seriously, dude, nobody is out to get you. I'm glad you made Pow. Pow looks awesome. I don't control what gets voted to the top of the page, and I'm probably no happier than you are about the sprawling nerdwar that resulted.
Seriously, dude, get over yourself. It's pretty ridiculous how much FUD this project announcement received in here, versus positive focus. There are multiple other long FUD threads that missed the point of Pow; you only started (and kept throwing fire at) the one that doesn't even touch what the project is about.
This is a blessing if you usually need multiple local apps running.
It also means you can now elegantly use local ruby webapps as personal desktop applications. Say you'd like to build a simple journal or expenses app to use on your desktop for personal use. You can now quickly build it with - say - Sinatra, Datamapper and SQLite. And no need to launch or quit it. Beautiful.