killrails

Because killing a Rails Server is a (minor) pain

This is a little gem to kill a Rails development server that holds onto the process after shutting it down on Linux or Mac.

In your Rails gemfile, add killrails to development:

group :development do
    gem 'killrails'
end

Usage

Kill a Rails dev server on the default port of 3000:

$ killrails

Kill a Rails dev server on specified port:

$ killrails [port]
$ killrails 4567