Ruby on Rails console is hanging when loading

Question

For whatever reason, the Ruby on Rails console refuses to start; it just hangs. I haven\'t made any changes to my code, and other projects using the same version of Ruby and

Answer 1

If $ bin/spring stop doesn't solve the issue, then check to make sure there isn't an orphaned Spring process still hanging around:

$ ps aux | grep -i spring

If you see something like

user  7163  0.0  0.0 110356  2165 pts/3    S+   19:40   0:00 grep --color=auto -i spring
user 16980  0.0  0.4 398826 17580 ?        Sl   Aug31   0:00 spring server | current | started 277 hours ago     

then kill the errant spring process and try to start the console again:

$ kill -9 16980 
$ rails c