I'm trying to use Foreman and Pow to work with a Rails app locally. Foreman is working and I can access the app on localhost:5000. The problem is when I go to access myapp.dev, I get the pow error page with this message:
Proxy Error
Couldn't proxy request to localhost:5000.
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
I know that Pow, Foreman, and Rails work on my system because I have them configured in other apps and they work fine. The only thing I can come up with for what's different between this app and ones that are working is this app uses Rails version 5.0.0rc1.
I can't just give up on Pow because one of the requirements for this app is using subdomains which I can't work with without a proper domain name.
I'm wondering if anybody else has had a similar issue with a Rails 5 app or has any clue what is going on here.
I had a similar error on OS X. Using symlinking instead of the port mapping seemed to fix this, even for an app running on a seemingly random port.
cd ~/.pow
ln -s /path/to/myapp
And then go to myapp.dev