Rails server says port already used, how to kill that process?

Question

I\'m on a mac, doing:

rails server

I get:

2010-12-17 12:35:15] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2010-12-17 12:35:15] INFO  ruby 1.8.7 (         


        

Answer 1

By default, rails server uses port 3000.
So, you have 2 options to run rails server.
1. Either you can run the server on other port by defining custom port using the following command
rails s -p 3001
2. Or you can kill all the running ruby process by running following command
killall -9 ruby
then run rails server