pulp

This is a simple helper for passenger in development. It does two things:

Simplifies the setup of new passenger virtual hosts by adding the necessary records to your apache config as well as to your hosts file.
Checks your apache config to make sure that you have the right settings, and right order of settings (like that your passenger vhosts are after your NameVirtualHost directive).

It works magically, by querying apache itself to find the location of your conf files. It isn't magical enough to work on Windows.

Installation

To perform a system wide installation:

gem source -a http://gems.github.com
gem install JasonKing-pulp

Typically you'll setup a new rails app with the rails executable, and then call pulp afterwards, like this:

> rails foobar
> sudo pulp foobar

Done. You will now be able to visit http://foobar.dev/ and see your new rails site running.