'Rails server start/stop

To run the Rails server, I use $rails server. It says 'To stop, click Ctrl+c'. I use Putty.

The questions are:

  1. Should I keep the terminal open always? Because if the server stops, my web page wouldn't work. With Apache I just used commands apachectl start/stop.

  2. What if I want to use a command? Should I stop the server, use command, and run again? Because in the same terminal I can't do enything if the server run.

ruby-on-railspuma


Solution 1:[1]

you can run it in background by writing

daemonize true

in your puma.rb file

To stop you need to find your running puma process

 ps aux | grep puma

then you need to kill the main process

 sudo kill -9 your process id

to start you need to type 

 puma -C config/puma.rb

Solution 2:[2]

You can start a daemonized server by adding -d to your command. For instance:

rails server -d

To stop the server, you can kill it based on its process id:

kill $(cat tmp/pids/server.pid)

Solution 3:[3]

Should I keep the terminal open always? Because if the server stops, my web page wouldn't work. With Apache I just used commands apachectl start/stop.

Yes, you should keep it open because if you Ctrl C it will stop the server. Another option is to run it in the background but I'm not sure how to do that in Putty.

What if I want to use a command? Should I stop the server, use command, and run again? Because in the same terminal I can't do enything if the server run.

Can you open another terminal window? If you have two terminal windows you can use one for running the server and another for other tasks.

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Solution 2 Flavio Wuensche
Solution 3 kcdragon

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