Both Amazon and Google have applied for the dev TLD. Given that one of those applications may be approved and that using an unreserved domain name is bad form anyway, it would be wise to switch to a reserved domain name. It may not be pretty, but localhost is arguably the most appropriate.

Please help! The only documentation I can find to get this working seems to be here. Here's what I've done so far...

First I have a simple rack app called myapp which I can start successfully with thin on it's default port.

Then, inside the myapp.pp project manifest:

boxen::project { 'myapp':
  ruby          => '2.0.0-p247',
  dir           => "${boxen::config::srcdir}/myapp",
  source        => "gituser/myapp",
  nginx         => true
}

Running boxen then creates /opt/boxen/config/nginx/sites/myapp.config which wants a socket file:

upstream myapp.dev {
  server unix:/opt/boxen/data/project-sockets/myapp;
}

So instead of starting thin on it's default port, I try starting it on a socket which seems to work:

% bundle exec thin start -S "${BOXEN_SOCKET_DIR}/myapp"
Using rack adapter
Thin web server (v1.6.1 codename Death Proof)
Maximum connections set to 1024
Listening on /opt/boxen/data/project-sockets/myapp, CTRL+C to stop

However, when I visit http://myapp.dev nothing resolves and it never even hits nginx. I've tried restarting dnsmasq with boxen --restart-service dnsmasq and still nothing.

What am I missing?

Hi guys, I want to modify my dnsmasq entry but I somehow can't find the right way to do it, does someone have an idea how to do this ?
I just want to add an entry, but I don't know how to restart the dnsmasq service, and besides when I run the boxen command again it overwrites my modifs :s

I asked on IRC about this but nobody's answering, so if anyone sees this, please halp :D (maybe this is the wrong place but I don't know where else to ask this).

Issue #5 references a way to override the config via dnsmasq::config class but that class was removed. There is reference to a $configfile param but it is not used. I'm going to fix in my personal fork. If would like me to submit a PR, help me understand how $configfile was intended to be used: a source, a template, or something else entirely?

The brew formula uses the deprecated sha1 method. We should upgrade to sha256 for security.

Warning: Calling Formula.sha1 is deprecated!
Use Formula.sha256 instead.
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Library/Taps/boxen/homebrew-brews/dnsmasq.rb:6:in `<class:Dnsmasq>'

Version: 2.0.1

So .dev has been sold by ICANN, and has a registry and root name servers. This means that Boxen is now (potentially) blocking legitimate sites by using .dev for local development. Are there plans to update the default domain to something that isn't actually part of the real internet?

Error: Execution of '/bin/launchctl start dev.dnsmasq' returned 3:
Error: /Stage[main]/Dnsmasq/Service[dev.dnsmasq]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Execution of '/bin/launchctl start dev.dnsmasq' returned 3:

any hints on that or how to fix that?