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Only gripe is being told to match Dev with production ... And then develop on Mac OS.

Virtual machines are a much cleaner and nicer way to do this. Setting up a wildcard SSL is similarly as simple, an you get the bonus of learning how to do it on a "real" (normal, more standard) server.

Example setting up wildcard subdomain SSL cert (self-signed): https://serversforhackers.com/ssl-certs/

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Having gotten more accustomed to the VM approach over the past year since I wrote this post, I agree.

Thanks for leaving your Gist up there describing the process, Jed. I do some work in VMs, but still found it very useful.

Hi Jed, I was wondering what your VM box looks like? Any cool tools you would recommend?

The development process is much less complicated when you only consider a single OS. The answer to: "How do I do this?" is always the same; a significant time/brain savings.

Also, if you develop for multiple clients, projects don't bleed into each other.

"Well, client X still uses PG 9.1, but I accidentally used a 9.3 feature, because thats what client Y uses."

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