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How do you stop a rails server from the command line?

I had a weird incidence where I closed my terminal, but the server kept running. When I tried to run the server again I got a message that the server was still running. How could I stop the server through the command line?

Solution

  • Way 1: Just type: Ctrl + C in the terminal where your server is running.

    Way 2: Another way of doing it:

    In your terminal to find out the PID of the process:

    $ lsof -wni tcp:3000

    Then, kill the process:

    $ kill -9 PID

    Way 3: You can also use the following command to kill all running apps with rails in the name:

    killall -9 rails