Rails server says port already used, how to kill that process?

Question

I\'m on a mac, doing:

rails server

I get:

2010-12-17 12:35:15] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2010-12-17 12:35:15] INFO  ruby 1.8.7 (         


        

Answer 1

By default, rails server uses port 3000.
So, you have 2 options to run rails server.
1. Either you can run the server on other port by defining custom port using the following command
rails s -p 3001
2. Or you can kill all the running ruby process by running following command
killall -9 ruby
then run rails server

Answer 2

kill -9 $(lsof -i tcp:3000 -t)

Answer 3

You need to get process id of program using tcp port 3000. To get process id

lsof -i tcp:3000 -t

And then using that process id, simply kill process using ubuntu kill command.

kill -9 pid

Or just run below mentioned combine command. It will first fetch pid and then kill that process.

kill -9 $(lsof -i tcp:3000 -t)

Answer 4

Some times there is a chance where rails server not closed properly. You can find process used by rails

ps aux | grep rails

Output will be like

user     12609  9.8  0.5  66456 45480 pts/0    Sl+  21:06   0:02 /home/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0-preview1/bin/ruby bin/rails s

Here process_id 12609 is used by your rails server.

You can kill it easily by command

kill -9 12609

Answer 5

Type in:

man lsof

Then look for -w, -n, and -i

-i: internet stuff -n: makes it faster -w: toggles warnings

There are WAY more details on the man pages

Answer 6

Assuming you're looking to kill whatever is on port 3000 (which is what webrick normally uses), type this in your terminal to find out the PID of the process:

$ lsof -wni tcp:3000

Then, use the number in the PID column to kill the process:

$ kill -9 PID