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

I came here because I were trying to (unsuccesfully) stop with a normal kill, and thought I'd being doing something wrong.

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