Showing posts with label Rails Server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rails Server. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2015

How to Kill an "open" Rails Server

If you've force-closed your Rails server instance for whatever reason (like a bug that froze up the server), you might run into issues when you try and restart it. For example, you might get the error "WARN TCPServer Error: Address already in use - bind(2) Exiting" What do you do?

Assuming that you're running on port 3000, find the PID of the process with

lsof -wni tcp:3000

and kill the process with

kill -9 PID