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Asked: 2026-05-28T15:11:34+00:00

I am newbie trying to learn some code. I am following the tutorial on

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I am newbie trying to learn some code. I am following the tutorial on http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

I am up to the point where I’ve gotten the welcome aboard message at localhost:3000, the last command I typed into my OSX terminal was “rails server”

The server spit out some info and at the end I got this…

Started GET “/assets/rails.png” for 127.0.0.1 at Fri Jan 27 12:44:36
-0500 2012 Served asset /rails.png – 304 Not Modified (2ms)

Started GET “/assets/rails.png” for 127.0.0.1 at Fri Jan 27 12:48:29
-0500 2012 Served asset /rails.png – 304 Not Modified (0ms)

Now the terminal prompt is not coming up…not sure how to fix or what I should do? Thanks to anyone who can help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    When you type in rails server (or rails s for short) the server starts running in that terminal window. This is a good thing. It means that there was no critical error at start up and rails will proceed by showing you a log of what’s happening in your app – what resources it’s serving, how long does it take, what views is it rendering, what database queries is it running, etc.

    To proceed you can either kill the server by pressing control-C or simply open up a new terminal tab by pressing command-T and work from there and you can always switch to the first tab to look at the log if needed. With rails you usually don’t need to restart the server so you can usually just keep it running in a tab in your terminal (an exception to that is when editing stuff in config or your Gemfile).

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