In the past, I could exit my rails application launched using webbrick using CtrlC. At some point in development, this functionality broke ( Ctrl<
I had the same issue with an application. It would seem that the issue is not with the authlogic gem but with the ":git" option. My entry causing webrick & mongrel to stop responding to Ctrl+C was
gem 'globalize3', :git => 'git://github.com/refinerycms/globalize3.git'