How to stop a Daemon Server in Rails?

Question

I am running my rails application using the following

  $script/server -d webrick  

on my Ubuntu system , above command run the webrick server in background . I could kill the process using kill command

  $kill pid 

Does rails provide any command to stop the background running daemon server ?

like the one provided by rails to start the server , Thanks .

EDIT When it is appropriate to start the daemon server ? Any real time scenario will help Thanks

Answer 1

if it can be useful, on linux you can find which process is using a port (in this case 3000) you can use:

lsof -i :3000

it'll return the pid too