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

Using this command you can kill the server:

ps aux|grep rails 

Answer 2

If you are on windows machine follow these steps.

c:/project/
cd tmp
c:/project/tmp
cd pids
c:/project/tmp/pids
dir

There you will a file called server.pid

delete it.

c:/project/tmp/pid> del *.pid

Thats it.

EDIT: Please refer this

Answer 3

To kill process on a specific port, you can try this

npx kill-port [port-number]

Answer 4

One line solution:

kill -9 $(ps aux | grep 'rails s' | awk {'print$2'}); rails s

Answer 5

For anyone stumbling across this question that is not on a Mac: assuming you know that your server is running on port 3000, you can do this in one shot by executing the following:

fuser -k 3000/tcp

But as Toby has mentioned, the implementation of fuser in Mac OS is rather primitive and this command will not work on mac.

Answer 6

All the answers above are really good but I needed a way to type as little as possible in the terminal so I created a gem for that. You can install the gem only once and run the command 'shutup' every time you wanna kill the Rails process (while being in the current folder).

gem install shutup

then go in the current folder of your rails project and run

shutup # this will kill the Rails process currently running

You can use the command 'shutup' every time you want

DICLAIMER: I am the creator of this gem

NOTE: if you are using rvm install the gem globally

rvm @global do gem install shutup