37signals/pow — Issue #233: New pow CLI helper
Author: jwhitley
Created: 2011-10-11 17:17:53+00:00
State: open

This issue is a bit of a "prelude to a pull request". I kicked out a [pow Ruby script](https://gist.github.com/1269353) for lazy people (i.e. me) who can't be bothered with all of that `cd`ing and `ln -s`ing all the time when using pow. I have [a blog post](http://bangpath.org/blog/2011/10/06/a-helping-hand-for-pow-dot-cx-users/) that illustrates its use a bit.

If this is something that y'all would be interested in pulling into the main pow distribution, I'd be happy to whip it into shape to submit as a pull request. At the very least, it'll need:

1. To be locked down to `#!/usr/bin/ruby`, so that users switching between a bunch of rubies don't run into problems.
1. Some deployment/update strategy for the script. Perhaps this could be integrated into the existing bin/pow script (e.g. start the server with `pow -s`, other options then reserved for end-user use). In that case, the installer might offer to symlink the script to a directory of the user's choosing.

-- John