Express guide to a rails 3.2+ testing custom app subdomains using cucumber capybara with a pow setup... along with devise mailer config helper example (useful if you need to test various auth situations for custom subdomains in a rails app).
If you haven't used pow, I wouldn't recommend it for local web dev... there's much better gems for local web dev like unicorn-rails or passenger nginx standalone are far better choices IMHO. I use pow for all the local name redirects to a port like explained below, with a rails dev server listening on that port running unicorn-rails.
So we're going to use it for the awesome subdomain redirect to a local customapp.dev on a specific port magic mojo.
- now go to pow.cx and install
- cd ~/.pow