Running Webrick server in background?

Question

MBPro:shovell myname$ ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.8 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to         


        

Answer 1

In general, you can use:

command &

And it will detach from the terminal window.

If you are using Linux, another options is to use screen:

screen
# start your process
# press Ctrl+a
# press Ctrl+d

Voila! It's detached. Then you can call screen -r and your process will be back as if nothing happened.