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

One line solution:

kill -9 $(ps aux | grep 'rails s' | awk {'print$2'}); rails s