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Asked: 2026-05-22T14:25:19+00:00

For some reason, when I type rails s, sometimes I can’t shut the server

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For some reason, when I type “rails s”, sometimes I can’t shut the server down using CTRL-C. It’s using Web brick, the default.

Sometimes it works for hours. Other times it doesn’t work at all and I must constantly kill the process if I want to shut down the server.

Is this a known problem? How can I fix it?

If you need to know more info, please just ask and I’ll tell you what I can. Because I don’t know what is causing it, I am at a loss as to what info to provide you with.

EDIT: I am adding a git repository:

gem 'rails-dev-boost', :git => 'git://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost.git', :require => 'rails_development_boost'

But to be fair, I’ve not had this problem with this line enabled… and I’ve also had this problem when this gem line didn’t exist.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The way I solved this problem was to do the following:

    To stop the rails server while it’s running, press:

    CTRL-C
CTRL-Z

    You will get control back to bash. Then type (without the $):

    $ fg

    And this will go back into the process, and then quit out of Rails s properly.

    It’s a little annoying, but this sure beats killing the process manually. It’s not too bad and it’s the best I could figure out.

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