Can't stop rails server

Question

I am new to rails and I am using an ubuntu machine and the rubymine IDE. The problem is that I am unable to stop the rails server. I tried to stop the server by killing the rails process. But, when I run `pgrep -l rails`, no such process is found. So, I am only able to kill ruby processes, but, the server won't stop. I tried `./script/server stop` (since I started it by running `./script/server start`), but, that didn't work. Googling around and finding some stackoverflow posts, I tried to change the localhost port's listening port but without success. Could someone help?

Accepted Answer

You can use other ports like the following:

```
rails server -p 3001
```

Normally in your terminal you can try `Ctrl + C` to shutdown the server.

The other way to kill the Ruby on Rails default server (which is `WEBrick`) is:

```
kill -INT $(cat tmp/pids/server.pid)
```

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

```
$ lsof -wni tcp:3000
```

Then, use the number in the PID column to kill the process:

For example:

```
$ kill -9 PID
```

And some of the other answers i found is:

To stop the rails server while it's running, press:

```
CTRL-C
CTRL-Z
```

You will get control back to `bash`. Then type (without the `$`):

```
$ fg
```

And this will go back into the process, and then quit out of `Rails s` properly.

It's a little annoying, but this sure beats killing the process manually. It's not too bad and it's the best I could figure out.

Updated answer:

You can use `killall -9 rails` to kill all running apps with "`rails`" in the name.

`killall -9 rails`

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