Restarting rails server, detached rails server

Question

How do you restart the rails server? I started it with

rails server -d

So the server is detached

The only way i know is to do ps aux | grep rails and kill -9 on the process # But is it good to kill processes like this?

Is there any command in rails that is supposed to be used for stopping or restarting the server?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Killing the detached server should have no negative consequences (given that there is nobody trying to reach the server). If there is still data that was not persisted however (e.g. from Active Directory caches) you would lose that, of course. If you encounter that problem more often, you may want to think about creating a rake task that will stop the server for you. As an alternative to

ps aux | grep ...

you could also use

lsof -i :[port]

where [port] is the port on which the server is running (default: 3000)