How to use same terminal window after using “rails server” command?

Question

Okay here\'s my problem. I type in \"rails s\" and then my terminal won\'t let me type in any commands. So I have to start a new terminal window, which is pretty annoying. <

Answer 1

I use screen, you can also use TMUX but they are window managers in terminal and you can create multiple windows in same terminal window :)

Read up on them at WikiVS as that might help you :) http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Screen_vs_tmux

Screen: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ TMUX: http://tmux.sourceforge.net/

So you can easily switch and maintain same terminal window. You can't obviously use the EXACT same window that rails server running but it's close enough without having to do the searching for the PID.