How to stop a Daemon Server in Rails?

Question

I am running my rails application using the following

  $script/server -d webrick 

on my Ubuntu system , above command run the webrick s

Answer 1

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

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

If you are running Mongrel, this is sufficient:

kill $(cat tmp/pids/server.pid)

Use kill -9 if your daemon hung. Remember the implications of kill -9 - if the data kept in Active Record caches weren't flushed to disk, you will lose your data. (As I recently did)