I\'m using RVM, Ruby 1.9.2, and Rails 3.0.7
A standard kill of the process from another terminal doesn\'t work, either, but kill -9 does, of course.
I found
used this line to create shortcut with ccsm (compiz conig settings manager or smth like this) -> commands:
kill -9 `pgrep -fl 'script/rails s' | awk '{print $1}'`
set to (ctrl+shift+`) or anything you like