Setup wild(er)card dns for local OSX development

As a rails developer, or any web developer for that matter, it can be a pain to open up your hosts file everytime you need access to a new development domain. It becomes even worse when you are in need of some hot subdomain action.

A while back I came across Geoff Hankerson’s post and was quite happy with the outcome. Since then I’ve changed my development machine and had since lost this configuration. I was in the process of writing an article to share with all of you on how to set this up when I came across Mike Ferrier’s updated post. I figured he had already put in the work creating a great article so I want to send you all there.

Obviously there are many different ways to set up your development environment but I feel this is a great option to have and I encourage you to try it out.